File image of President Droupadi Murmu
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President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday congratulated the ISRO over the successful deployment of the Chandrayaan 3’s Pragyan Rover.
The deployment passed off a couple of hours after the successful touchdown of the Lander Module. The Rover was contained in the stomach of the Lander Module.
“I once again congratulate the ISRO team and all fellow citizens for successful deployment of Pragyan-rover from inside Vikram-lander. Its rolling out a few hours after the landing of Vikram marked the success of yet another stage of Chandrayan 3. I look forward with excitement, alongside my fellow citizens and scientists to the information and analyses that Pragyan will acquire and enrich our understanding of the moon,” Ms Murmu posted on X social media platform on Thursday.
Though there was no official phrase from ISRO on August 23 concerning the deployment of Pragyan, its roll out passed off a couple of hours after the successful touchdown.
ISRO is but to formally launch any pictures of the rollout of the Rover or its deployment on the lunar floor. However on social media there have been pictures of the Pragyan popping out of the Lander Module.
The Rover will perform in-situ chemical evaluation of the lunar floor in the course of the course of its mobility.
“The Pragyan rover may come out in the next few hours or it may take one day also to come out depending on the conditions,” ISRO Chairman S. Somanath informed reporters after the mushy touchdown on August 23.
He stated that when out, the rover would perform two essential experiments. It has two payloads — the LASER Induced Breakdown Spectroscope (LIBS) and the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS). The targets of the LIBS are to conduct qualitative and quantitative elemental evaluation and to derive the chemical composition and infer mineralogical composition to additional our understanding of the lunar floor.
The APXS will decide the fundamental composition of lunar soil and rocks across the touchdown web site.
