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Images from the lander imager and rover imager on Vikram. (Photo: @ISROSpaceflight/X)
A photo taken by the rover's Imager camera provides the best possible view of Pragyan's attempt to imprint India's national emblem on the lunar regolith.
Ahead of India's first National Space Day, which is also the anniversary of the Chandrayaan-3 landing, ISRO has released a new set of images captured by the Vikaram lander and Pragyan rover. Some of the “sneak peeks” of the images include Prajian's first moments on the lunar surface and other phases of the mission.
#ISRO Vikram lander and Pragya rover to be revealed soon #Chandrayaan3The anniversary of the landing is tomorrow! ! Here's a preview of some of the images:
[1/3] Image captured by Pragyan's NavCam: (read alt text for details) pic.twitter.com/8wlbaLwzSX
— ISRO Spaceflight (@ISROSpaceflight) August 22, 2024
ISRO Spaceflight, which provides the latest updates from the Indian space agency, said the images were taken by the Lander Imager (LI) and Rover Imager (RI) on Vikram. A post on
“As far as we know, it was not very successful as the lunar soil texture near the South Pole (where the successful landing was) was found to be of a different texture than expected,” ISRO Spaceflight said, adding that the “navigation camera on Pragyan” was B/W (Black and White) Camera. The camera on Vikram is a color camera.
That's because data from the Chandrayaan-3 mission provides new insights into the moon, Earth's only natural satellite. Based on this, the journal published an analysis nature Supports the theory that the Moon was once covered by a magma ocean, or “magma ocean.”
The analysis involved measurements of lunar soil, recorded by the Pragyan rover and taken at multiple points along a 100-meter track on the surface.
The rover was deployed by the Vikram lander, which soft-landed near the lunar south pole on August 23, 2023, as part of the Chandrayaan-3 mission.
