The first mission to land near the lunar south pole is expected to keep going until the sun sets on the moon two weeks from now.
And the space agency announced late yesterday on X that the rover, Pragyan, successfully rolled off the lander via a short ramp and"." That means the rover successfully deployed its own tiny solar panels to help it inch forward. It has two spectrometers onboard to study the makeup of lunar soil in the immediate area around the landing site.
Although the rover is equipped with cameras to avoid obstacles, its movements will be controlled at all times such that it trudges within the field of view of the cameras on the lander Vikram, ISRO has previously said. Vikram also switched on three of its four onboard science experiments today , according to ISRO. A particularly interesting instrument is a thermal probe that will, for the first time, shallowly probe lunar soil and measure its temperature, among other properties.known as the ionosphere, which is filled with electrons and ions formed largely as a result of solar radiation.
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