Chennai, April 24 -- The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
organised a national meet on the potential aspects of lunar sample science
in the context of the forthcoming Chandrayaan-4 mission planned for launch
in year 2027-2028 time frame, which aims at returning lunar samples back
to the Earth.
This national meet was attended by the lunar science community engaged
in analysing meteorite samples, terrestrial analogs, lunar soil simulants, as
well as the scientists who are keen to constraint the remote sensing
observations of the lunar surface with ground-truth experiments with the
returned-samples.
The participants comprised about 50 scientists; almost 50 per cent of them
represented 12 research and academic institutes (o...