Chandrayaan-3's Pragyan rover encounters 4-metre diameter crater on lunar surface, retraces path; ISRO releases fresh pictures

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Chandrayaan-3: Pragyan rover comes across big crater on lunar surface, retraces path; ISRO releases fresh pictures..

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Monday informed that Pragyan Rover came across a 4-metre diameter crater on the lunar surface on Sunday...

Taking to X (formerly Twitter), ISRO said, Chandrayaan-3 Mission: On August 27, 2023, the Rover came across a 4-meter diameter crater positioned 3 meters ahead of its location..

Earlier Nilesh M Desai, Director, Space Applications Centre (SAC) on Sunday said that the Chandrayaan-3s rover module Pragyan, moving on the surface of the moon, is in a race against time and that the ISRO scientists are working to cover a maximum distance of the uncharted South pole through the six-wheeled rover...

Our two main objectives have been accomplished successfully, but our third objective is underway, the scientist said.. Observing that the Pragyan rover is in a race against time, he said, Our focus is to make the rover cover as much distance of the moons South pole as possible so that it conducts more experiments and we obtain data here on earth...