{"id":123232,"date":"2022-10-11T11:57:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T06:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=123232"},"modified":"2022-10-11T11:57:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T06:27:26","slug":"chandrayaan-2-spectrometer-maps-abundance-of-sodium-on-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/chandrayaan-2-spectrometer-maps-abundance-of-sodium-on-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Chandrayaan-2 spectrometer maps abundance of sodium on moon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Chandrayaan-2 spectrometer maps abundance of sodium on moon: <\/strong>According to the Indian Space Research Organisation\u00a0(ISRO), the\u00a0X-ray spectrometer &#8216;CLASS&#8217; on the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter\u00a0has\u00a0mapped an abundance of sodium on the moon for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/daily-quiz-october-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">October 2022 Current Affairs Quiz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chandrayaan-1\u2019s X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometer (C1XS) has detected sodium from its characteristic line in X-rays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CLASS was built at the U R Rao Satellite Centre of ISRO in Bengaluru. It provides clean signatures of the sodium line due to its high sensitivity and performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chandrayaan-2 spectrometer maps abundance of sodium on moon: According to the Indian Space Research Organisation\u00a0(ISRO), the\u00a0X-ray spectrometer &#8216;CLASS&#8217; on the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter\u00a0has\u00a0mapped an abundance of sodium on the moon for the first time. October 2022 Current Affairs Quiz Chandrayaan-1\u2019s X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometer (C1XS) has detected sodium from its characteristic line in X-rays. CLASS was built [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":123233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4970],"tags":[130,68],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-123232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-october-2022","tag-isro-current-affairs","tag-science-technology-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123234,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123232\/revisions\/123234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123232"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=123232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}