India’s Chandrayaan-3 rover confirms sulphur on moon’s south pole

Spacecraft finds sulphur and other elements as it searches for signs of frozen water nearly a week after historic landing.

India’s moon rover has confirmed the presence of sulphur and detected several other elements on the lunar south pole, says the country’s space agency.

Last week, India became the first country to land a craft near the largely unexplored south pole, and just the fourth nation to land on the moon.

“The Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) instrument onboard…