“We are using the neutron generator to see through the soil to a sufficiently large depth of 60 cm,” Mitrofanov quotes TASS.
According to him, "it is like a fluorography in a hospital."
“We are illuminating with neutrons, we get a spectrum of secondary radiation, by which we are judged to be at this depth,” said Mitrofanov.
ADRON will give an “assessment of the content of various chemical elements that are in the ground” and transmit the data to Earth.
Earlier it was reported that the Luna-26 orbiter would conduct global nuclear-physical geological exploration of the lunar regolith, or surface formations of the moon.