India became only the fourth nation to land a spacecraft on the celestial body in August.
ISRO rover Pragyan surveyed the vicinity of the Moon’s south pole but was powered down before the start of the lunar night.
Rover Pragyan – “Wisdom” in Sanskrit – surveyed the vicinity of the Moon’s south pole but was powered down before the start of the lunar night, which lasts roughly two weeks on Earth. ISRO said last week it had hoped to re-establish contact with the rover and the lander that safely delivered it.The world’s most populous nation has been steadily matching the achievements of established spacefaring powers at a fraction of their cost.
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