Introduction
The Moon is an astronomical, rocky, airless body that orbits around our planet Earth and Earth’s only permanent natural satellite. It is the fifth largest natural satellite in our solar system with no atmosphere (generally considered as vacuum) and the second densest satellite after the Jupiter’s satellite lo has 27.32-day rotation period and therefore the day and night on the Moon are equal to about 14 Earth days. Generally, the Moon and the Earth are considered together as Earth–Moon system because of the similarity between their formation and evolution. The surface of the moon is covered with meters of dust with rocks and was first observed in detail by an Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei from his small telescope about 400 years ago. The lunar surface regions can be broadly divided into four main groups: (i) The feldspathic Highland Terrain (FHT); (ii) the mare basalt; (iii) Procellarum KREEP Terrain (PKT); and (iv) South Pole Aitken Terrain (SPAT). On the basis of...
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Calla, O.P.N. (2023). Chandrayaan-1 Mission. In: Cudnik, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Lunar Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14541-9_108
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