Tag: temperature below moon

An instrument on the Vikram lander has measured the temperature of the moon 10 cm below the surface and has come up with a revelation: there is a sharp temperature drop.  The graph shows that at a few millimetres above the surface the temperature is a little over 50 degrees C, but as you go down to 8 cm below the surface, it drops to minus 10 degrees C. The inference is that the moon does not hold the heat it receives from the sun, because there is no...