After the Chandrayaan-3 mission's successful soft landing, the Pragyan rover from the Indian Space Research Organization was successfully placed on the Moon on Thursday.
This occurred just hours after Chandrayaan-3, India's third lunar mission, wrote history on Wednesday night when the Vikram lander made contact with the Moon's surface.
Isro posted on X (formerly known as Twitter) that "The Ch-3 Rover ramped down from the Lander and India took a walk on the Moon," adding that additional mission details would be given shortly.
The rover, which is approximately the size of a microwave oven, can move across the lunar surface up to a distance of 500 meters (1,640 ft). It will run tests to investigate the atmosphere, geology, and mineralogy of the Moon.
India's third moon mission is called Chandrayaan-3. Chandrayaan-1, the first, was launched in 2008 and used for two years. Chandrayaan-2, the second, was launched in 2019 but was unable to touch down on the moon.
India became the fourth nation to softly land on the Moon after China, the Soviet Union, and the United States thanks to Chandrayaan-3's successful mission.
The first of its kind to be placed on the south pole of the Moon is the Pragyan rover. It has many different tools, such as a camera, a spectrometer, and a magnetometer. The moon rover will carry out tests to investigate the composition, mineralogy, and history of the lunar surface.
The Pragyan rover is planned to run for one lunar day or around 14 days on Earth. It will communicate with the Chandrayaan-3 satellite and run on solar power.
