The Indian Space Research Organisation ( ISRO ) set its Vikram lander to catch some Z’s modal value on Sunday at 10:30 p.m. ET , switching off its payloads while observe its receivers on , the place agencyannouncedon X , formerly Twitter . The lander ’s familiar on the Moon , the Pragyan rover , “ will fall asleep next to Pragyan once the solar powerfulness is eat up and the electric battery is debilitate , ” ISRO wrote on X.
India ’s Chandrayaan-3 missionsuccessfully landed on the Moonon August 23 , making India the fourth country to reach such feat after the Soviet Union , the U.S. , and China . The missionary work was designed to last for the continuance of a lunar day , with the lander ’s solar panels converting sunlight into electrical energy . A lunar day and night each last about 14 Earth day , with the daytime experiencing extreme heat and light , while nighttime plunge into polar duskiness . Now that the Sun has mark on the lunar south rod , Vikram and Pragyan are enjoy some downtime , but ISRO hope to wake the pair up on September 22 when a fresh lunar day begins .
Before it was insert in for the lunar night , the Vikram lander performed a abbreviated stunt on the Moon . The lander fired its engines and elevated itself around 15 inches ( 40 cm ) above the lunar airfoil , landing around 11 - 15 inches ( 30 - 40 cm ) aside from its original spot . The purpose of the record hop experiment was to test out the technology for next missions .
The ramp deployed by the lander following its hop on September 3.Image: ISRO
Chandrayaan-3 Mission: 🇮 🇳 Vikram flaccid - landed on 🌖 , again !
Vikram Lander surpass its mission objective . It successfully undergo a record hop experiment .
On command , it fired the engines , elevated itself by about 40 centimeter as expected and landed safely at a distance of 30 – 40 cm away.…pic.twitter.com/T63t3MVUvI
— ISRO ( @isro)September 4 , 2023
India ’s Moon missionary post has been busy exploring the Moon ’s south terminal , measure the temperature profileof this previously unexplored part . TheChandrayaan-3 rover has also launch traces of sulfurand other chemic elements on the lunar control surface .
As the lunar military mission hunkers down for the night , India ’s space federal agency is hopeful that its that its duo of lunar robots will wake up after enduring the cold lunar Nox and resume exploring the Moon ’s dusty terrain .
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