These images of Vikram lander had been taken by Pragyan’s Navigation Camera on August 30, 2023. Photo courtesy ISRO
The Chandrayaan-3’s Pragyan rover has captured a picture of the Vikram lander. Pragyan’s Navigation Camera on Wednesday clicked the picture of Vikram.
“Chandrayaan-3 Mission: Smile, please! Pragyan Rover clicked an image of Vikram Lander this morning. The image was taken by the Navigation Camera onboard the Rover (NavCam). NavCams for the Chandrayaan-3 Mission are developed by the Laboratory for Electro-Optics Systems (LEOS),” ISRO posted on X (previously Twitter).
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Chandrayaan-3 consists of a lander module and propulsion module. The lander module consists of Vikram and Pragyan.
Post the smooth touchdown on the lunar floor, the Pragyan rover rolled out from the Vikram lander and since then has been traversing on the Moon. Apart from taking footage it has additionally been finishing up in-situ scientific experiments.
The picture of the lander additionally reveals the deployment of the Chandra’s Surface Thermophysical Experiment (ChaSTE) and Instrument for Lunar Seismic Activity (ILSA). These two are among the many 4 payloads onboard the lander.
The ChaSTE payload measures the temperature profile of the lunar topsoil across the pole whereas the ILSA’s goal is to measure the seismicity across the touchdown website.
On August 29, Pragyan confirmed the presence of Sulphur (S) within the area because the Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) instrument onboard the rover made the first-ever in-situ measurements on the basic composition of the lunar floor close to the south pole.
“These in-situ measurements confirm the presence of Sulphur (S) in the region unambiguously, something that was not feasible by the instruments onboard the orbiters,” ISRO stated.
