INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) on Wednesday released images of Chandrayaan-3's Vikran lander clicked by Pragyan
rover on the lunar surface.The image was taken by the Navigation Camera onboard the rover, Isro said."Pragyan Rover clicked an image of
Vikram Lander this morning
The 'image of the mission' was taken by the Navigation Camera onboard the Rover (NavCam)
NavCams for the Chandrayaan-3 Mission are developed by the Laboratory for Electro-Optics Systems (LEOS)," Isro said on X, formerly known as
Twitter.The Chandrayaan-3 lander and rover have completed about half their designed life on the lunar surface, sending in scientific data
everyday in the past week
While the two are designed to last one lunar day (14 Earth days), when the sun shines, there are mechanisms to spring them back to life when
the sun rises again after the long night.Both Vikram and Pragyan are solar-powered and are designed only to operate during sunlit periods,
positioned 3 metres ahead of its location, causing it to change its path.TOI had earlier reported that rover operations on the Moon are
data is downloaded to ground for generation of a digital elevation model (DEM), then the ground and mechanisms teams will decide which path
to take and uplink the command for the rover to follow
On August 27, a similar operation was carried out to ensure that the rover avoids the new crater.
