India’s moon rover discovers sulphur on south pole’s surface

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India’s lunar mission to the south pole hopes to find frozen water. No ice yet but the Chandrayaan-3’s moon rover has detected sulphur in the soil, as well as aluminum and iron and several other elements.

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