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ChaSTE instrument
April 24 , 2025
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- Chandra’s Surface Thermophysical Experiment (ChaSTE) has become the first instrument to measure temperatures in situ near the moon’s south pole.
- It also became the first mission to successfully penetrate the soil of a celestial body to deploy a thermal probe after two previous missions had fallen short.
- In November 12 of 2014, the European Space Agency’s Philae lander, hitchhiking on the Rosetta spacecraft, landed on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
- It also contains same kind of instrument, but they couldn’t deploy it due to the awkward landing position.
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