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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has updated on the status of the Lander Vikram and Rover Pragyan's activities on the lunar surface on Thursday..
"Lander Module payloads ILSA, RAMBHA and ChaSTE are turned on today," it said.. With the rover mobility operations being commenced, other operations are also normal, it informed...
The Lander and the Rover have scientific payloads to carry out experiments on the lunar surface...
Over the next two weeks, starting today, the experiments onboard lander Vikram and rover Pragyan will be happening on all days and as much data will be collected from all instruments until the Moons Day lasts...
RAMBHA-LP- a Langmuir Probe to measure surface plasma density, a laser reflector mounted on the corner of the Vikram for accurate positioning measurement of Lander on the Lunar surface by future orbiters will also operate over the following lunar day...
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