INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
BENGALURU: As Isro burns the midnight oil on Earth, waiting to hear again from Chandrayaan-3 lander (Vikram) and rover (Pragyan), principal
investigators of instruments on the two have begun sifting through data for new findings.Among many things the global scientific community
for future missions, including ambitious projects aiming to send humans back to Moon
But the temperature has to rise above a certain threshold
For the wake up, we need power generation and temperature on the elements on Vikram and Pragyan to meet certain criteria
We should know something by September 21 or 22
TOI.Multiple Isro scientists TOI spoke with reiterated that Vikram and Pragyan waking would be a bonus and that the data the two have sent
when they were awake is expected to give new information given that all earlier in situ experiments were carried out in the equatorial
There is anticipation that our data would lead to some new things
Bharadwaj said teams were looking into datasets from instruments studying the surface, seismicity, temperature, elements, profile of
temperature beneath the surface, regolith (topsoil) properties such as how fluffy, loose or grainy it is
Our observations have the potential to give new information about the topsoil
We can very clearly see rover movement paths being created, images of the vicinity of the landing site and rover movement site show grooves
of the rover are about a centimetre, the lander legs going inside, suggesting loose soil
How much is topsoil (regolith) and where it gets compact
There are previous conjectures about the features, how they are able to retain signatures despite having loose soil
whether frozen ice could be found on crater rims
To know more we need to study the rover data
