Multiple choice

Which of the following Space Craft was launched recently to prepare a 3 dimensional Atlas of the lunar surface and also for chemical mapping of entire lunar surface?

  1. PSLV-II

  2. Chandrayan-III

  3. Chandrayan-II

  4. Chandrayan-I

  5. None of these
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Explanation

Chandrayaan-1 was India's first lunar probe launched in October 2008. It carried instruments including the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) which created a 3-dimensional atlas of the lunar surface and performed chemical and mineralogical mapping of the entire lunar surface. It discovered water molecules on the lunar surface.

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