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Charged particles on moon!

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Chandrayaan2 orbiter detected charged particles and it's intensity variations during it's first passage through the *geotail. Geotail- Geotail is a satellite observing the Earth's magnetosphere. It was developed by Japan's ISAS in association with the United States' NASA, and was launched by a Delta II rocket on July 24, 1992. Geotail  provides information about the way the magnetic envelope surrounding Earth, called the magnetosphere, responds to incoming material and energy from the Sun.   image source:Isro (Chandrayaan-2 is India's second lunar exploration mission after Chandrayaan-1. Developed by the  Indian Space Research Organisation, the mission was launched from the second launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre on 22 July 2019 at 2.43 PM IST to the Moon by a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III.)