The rover was rerouted after it encountered a hazardous crater.
But, it is also in those permanently shadowed areas that scientists think water ice may reside, which is why there has been immense interest among space agencies across the world to visit the lunar south pole.
Pragyan's reroute from one such hazardous crater was captured by cameras onboard the Vikram lander. Pragyan is expected to stay within the lander's field of view at all times, so scientists were able to combine multiple images snapped by the lander and parse them into a short video. The limited geographical area within which it can move does not seem to have limited Pragyan. Just a few days after beginning its hunt for water ice, the moon rover confirmed the presence of
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