Watch Chandrayaan-3's Pragyan rover take its '1st steps' on the moon (video)

Now there are Indian tracks on the moon!

The footage, taken by a camera on's Vikram lander, shows Pragyan with its vertical solar panel deployed like a sail rolling down the ramp and leaving tracks in the soft lunar dust as its wheels touch it for the first time.

A separate clip shows the preceding sequence of events with the lander's ramp door opening, revealing the rover stowed inside and the subsequent deployment of the solar panel. , previously known as Twitter, sharing the clips."A solar panel enabled the rover to generate power." ISRO added that 26 mechanical segments — all developed at the Rao Satellite Centre in Bangalore, India's tech center and capital of the southern state of Karnataka — were needed to facilitate the smooth release of the rover from the lander. that Pragyan has already traversed a distance of about 26 feet and that all systems on both, the lander and the rover are fit and well.

ISRO also shared a photo of Pragyan and its mothership sitting next to each other on the lunar surface, which was taken from the

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