Images showing the lunar surface after a Lander hop experiment was conducted successfully on Sunday, Sept. 3, 2023 (Pic/PTI)
On Monday, the ISRO stated that the data collected by the payloads is received at the Earth and the Payloads are now switched off. It is expected by ISRO that Vikram Lander and Pragyaan will awake again on around September 22
(In Pic: Lander Module successfully separated from the Propulsion Module. Pic/ISRO/Twitter)
"Vikram will fall asleep next to Pragyan once the solar power is depleted and the battery is drained. Hoping for their awakening, around September 22, 2023," ISRO tweeted on X
An illustration shows the rover 'Pragyan' travelling across the lunar surface over 100 meters and continuing
On August 23, India took a giant leap as the Chandrayaan-3 lander module successfully landed on the moon's South Pole, making it the first country to have achieved the historic feat
After having landed, the Vikram Lander and the Pragyan rover performed different set tasks on the lunar surface, including finding the presence of sulphur and recording relative temperature
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