Explained: What is Spectroscopy? | Explained News, The Indian Express

Explained: What is Spectroscopy? | Explained News, The Indian Express

By Express News Service |Updated: October 19, 2019 4:56:33 pm

Explained: What is Spectroscopy?

Science behind latest Chandrayaan-2 image, and why these graphs matter

ISRO said on September 7 ground stations lost communication with Vikram (with rover Praygan tucked inside it), minutes before its planned soft-landing on the Lunar surface. (Source: PTI/File)

ON WEDNESDAY, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) released an image from Chandrayaan-2 showing measurements from the Moon, carried out by the instrument Imaging Infrared Spectrometer (IIRS). Such studies make up a branch of physics called spectroscopy.