This week, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) made a significant announcement regarding its Pragyaan lunar lander’s findings.

The lander has successfully identified sulfur as well as several other elements, including aluminum, iron, calcium, chromium, titanium, manganese, oxygen, and silicon, on the lunar surface.

ISRO stated that these findings represent the “first-ever in-situ measurements” of the elemental composition of resources located near the lunar south pole, Futurism reported.

This particular region is widely believed by scientists to harbor extensive reserves of water ice.

The six-wheeled rover, weighing 57 pounds, has definitively confirmed the presence of sulfur, a discovery that the ISRO highlighted in a statement.

Importantly, this accomplishment was unattainable through the instruments mounted on orbiters.

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