India's Chandrayaan-3 moon rover swerves to avoid crater

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India's Chandrayaan-3 moon rover swerves to avoid crater
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The six-wheeled Pragyan rover had to change course to avoid a 4-metre wide crater on the surface of the moon, as the Vikram lander has returned temperature readings from the lunar surface

India’s moon rover has successfully steered around a small crater and carried on exploring uncharted territory near to the south pole, while its mothership lander has transmitted its first scientific data, as the Chandrayaan-3 mission nears its halfway point.

Four hours after the Indian Space Research Organisation’s spacecraft landed on 23 August, and once the sun had risen on the landing site, the six-wheeled Pragyan rover – which weighs just 26 kilograms – rolled off the Vikram lander and on on to theThe rover sat near the lander while ISRO engineers carried out tests and waited for its solar panel to begin producing power, before it set off across the surface.

ISRO did not respond to a request for comment, but the mission operations director M Srikanth told thethat engineers are currently “confident” that it will in fact be revived after the coming lunar night.“Our priority is to ensure that the project objective of getting scientific data for one lunar day is achieved. We’re focusing on rover mobility and payload operations. This will continue for another seven days after which they will go to sleep when the Sun sets,”.

If the hardware is not damaged by the cold, both the rover and lander are designed to harvest solar power when available, boot up and resume transmission with Earth. The rover will be parked in a position prior to sunset that will give it the best chance of achieving this when the sun rises again, said Srikanth.

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