India’s space agency recently showcased a video of the Pragyan rover undergoing remote rotations on the lunar surface from its command center in Bengaluru. This maneuver aims to identify a safe path amidst craters and rocks before the upcoming lunar night, lasting 14 Earth days.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) shared this development, captured by a Lander Imager Camera, with a poetic touch, likening it to a child’s playful exploration on Chandamama’s lunar “yards” under a watchful mother’s gaze.
This update follows Pragyan’s earlier image of Vikram, the lander, taken with its NavCam, marking a milestone as the first image since deployment. Previously, all visuals were from the lander’s perspective, and ISRO celebrated this image as the “mission’s essence.”
On August 23, India achieved a historic milestone as Chandrayaan-3’s module, Vikram, made a soft landing on the Moon, making India the fourth country globally, after the United States, China, and Russia, to achieve this feat and the first to explore the Moon’s South Pole in such proximity.
