The rover will travel on the surface of the moon for at least another two weeks
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has announced that the Pragyan lunar rover, part of the Chandrayaan-3 mission, is already traveling on the moon.
[Mission] rover Chandrayaan 3 left lander and India walked on the Moon ,” ISRO tweeted.
Indian lunar rover went for a walk on the moon and sent the first picture
Also published the first photo taken by the lunar rover. « Image taken by the camera after landing. It shows part of the Chandrayaan 3 landing site. The leg [of the apparatus] and the shadow accompanying it are also visible . Chandrayaan 3 chose a relatively flat area of the lunar surface ,” ISRO explained.
The Pragyan lunar rover weighing 26 kg will work on the surface of the Earth’s natural satellite on a lunar day (14 Earth days). Recall that India became the first country in the world to successfully land a spacecraft on the South Pole of the Moon.
