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Articles: Science from Chandrayaan 3

**Top left:** The Chandrayaan 3 rover rolling out of the lander’s ramp during pre-launch testing; **Bottom left:** The co-added spectrum from all 23 lunar surface soil and rock measurements by the rover’s X-ray spectrometer; **Right:** An artist’s concept of our Moon shortly after its formation, with a magma ocean and a newly forming rocky crust. Images: ISRO / Santosh Vadawale, et al. / NASA Goddard

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