Pragyan Rover After Chandrayaan-3: India's First Walk On The South Pole

Every Indian wearing a badge of honours after a moon landing. India has created history as it became the first country to land on the South Pole. Our Prime Minister Modi congratulated Indians and space scientists for the achievement. Such a notable achievement for Indians.

First man-made device to ever step on this part of the Moon. "Pragyan", has two instruments to conduct element and chemical composition experiments and a robotic path planning exercise for future exploration.

India's Chandrayaan-3 mission had an incredible accomplishment as its rover successfully descended from the lander and made a lunar landing. It was a significant moment when India stepped onto the Moon!

The Vikram lander successfully touched down as planned on Wednesday evening. With this, India joins an elite club of countries to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, after the US, the former Soviet Union and China.

What’s The Role Of Pragyaan on the Moon?

The 26kg rover called Pragyaan (the Sanskrit word for wisdom) was carried to the Moon in the Vikram lander's belly. After the dust raised by last evening’s landing had settled, panels on one side of the Vikram opened to deploy a ramp to enable Pragyaan to slide down to the lunar surface.

The Biggest Purpose Of Pragyaan

Pragyaan is holding two scientific instruments that will try to find out what minerals are present on the lunar surface and study meticulously the chemical composition of the soil. Pragyaan can communicate only with the lander which will send the information to the orbiter from Chandrayaan-2- which is still circling the Moon - to pass it on to the Earth for analysis.

It will now roam around the rocks and craters, gathering important data and images to be sent back to the Earth for breakdown.

The Final Notion Of ISRO About Lunar Rover

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has stated that the rover will move at a speed of 1 cm per second. With each step, it will also leave on the Moon’s surface the trace of Isro’s logo and symbol on its six wheels. The landing overlaps with the start of a lunar day. A day on the Moon equals a little over four weeks on Earth and this will mean the lander and rover will have 14 days of sunlight to charge their batteries.

Once night falls, they will discharge and stop functioning. It is not yet clear whether they will make it as it was before when the next lunar day starts.

Moon holds important minerals but one of the major goals of Chandrayaan-3 is to track water. Scientists say the huge craters at the South Pole region which are permanently in the shady hold ice which could support human habitation on the Moon in future.

The Chandrayaan-3 lander, Vikram after a 40-day journey into space touched down on the uncharted lunar South Pole on 23 August, It marked a giant leap in India’s spacefaring journey providing a well-deserved finale to ISRO’s long years of hard work. Now, India has become the fourth country after the US, China, and Russia have successfully landed on the moon’s surface.

The real test of the mission began at the last leg of the landing. Before 20 minutes before landing,

The final 15 to 20 minutes were crucial for the mark of victory on the Moon when Chandrayaan-3’s Vikram lander descended to its soft landing.