Chandrayaan 3’s rover ‘Pragyaan’ has completed its assignments on the lunar surface and set into sleep mode, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has announced. The space agency’s announcement came just hours after ISRO chief S Somanath said that the lunar mission’s rover and lander, ‘Pragyaan’ and ‘Vikram‘, respectively were functioning well and they would be …
The Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscope instrument onboard ‘Pragyan’ rover of Chandrayaan-3 has unambiguously confirmed the presence of sulphur on the lunar surface near south pole, through first-ever in-situ measurements, ISRO said on Tuesday. It also said the instrument also detected aluminium, calcium, iron, chromium, titanium, manganese, silicon and oxygen, as expected. “The Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) …
India’s Chandrayaan 3 successfully landed near to the south pole region of the moon—but will its … [+] Pragyan rover survive the lunar night? getty The Indian Space Research Agency achieved something remarkable this week when it successfully landed its Vikram lander on the surface of the moon. Today it published an incredible video of …