Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Monday said that the Chandrayaan-3‘s Pragyaan rover came across a 4-meter diameter crater positioned 3 meters ahead of its location on the lunar surface yesterday.
While sharing the pictures on X (previously Twitter), the space organization said, “On August 27, 2023, the Rover went over a 4-meter breadth hole situated 3 meters in front of its area. The Rover was instructed to go back along the path. It’s currently securely heading on another way.”
Rover Is Heading On a New Path
According to ISRO, the rover is now on a safe new route. Prior to Sunday, ISRO expressed that of the Chandrayaan-3′s main goal’s three targets, two have been achieved remembering the exhibition of a protected and delicate arrival for the lunar surface and showing of wanderer meandering on the moon.
It further said that the in-situ logical trials are in progress while every one of the payloads is performing ordinarily.
Chandrayaan-3 Created History Reaching South Pole
The Chandrayaan-3, unexpectedly throughout the entire existence of world space science, profiled the dirt of the south pole of the moon, its temperature variety up to 10cm underneath the surface.
ISRO shared a diagram of the variety of the moon’s dirt temperature at different profundities. ” In order to comprehend the thermal behavior of the moon’s surface, ChaSTE (Chandra’s Surface Thermophysical Experiment) measures the temperature profile of the lunar topsoil around the pole.
ISRO Shared Pictures Of ‘Shiv Shakti’ Point
The images of the Pragyan rover exploring the “Shiv Shakti” Point, which is where Chandrayaan-3 will land on the lunar surface, had already been made public by the space agency. It likewise carried out over the outer layer of the Moon and covered a distance of 8 meters.
India took a monster jump on August 23 as the Chandrayaan-3 lander module effectively arrived on the moon’s South Pole, making it the first country to have accomplished the notable accomplishment and finishing off the mistake over the accident arrival of the Chandrayaan, a long-time back.