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Data from India’s historic moon mission supports long-standing lunar theory

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India 's Chandrayaan-3 mission made India the fourth country to land on the moon one year ago Friday .

The mission landed in the moon’s southern high-latitude regions, near the lunar south pole.

The data marks the first measurements of elements within lunar soil near the south polar region.

The rover detected a relatively uniform composition largely made of a rock called ferroan anorthosite.

The Chandrayaan-3 mission adds another surface data point to understanding the moon.

Scientists’ understanding of how the moon came to be drives models of how all planets form, including planets beyond our solar system, Petro says.

More missions are planned to return to the lunar surface.