Chandrayaan-3s rover, Pragyan has shared an image from the Shiv Shakti Point in Moons south pole. The picture has been clicked using its Navigation camera and is the first picture clicked by the rover since its landing on the lunar surface last week. All the pictures and videos till now were captured by the Vikram lander.The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) shared a post on X, formerly known as Twitter to express their excitement of the new development in the Chandrayaan-3 mission. The caption of the post read “Smile, please📸! Pragyan Rover clicked an image of Vikram Lander this morning. The image of the mission 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)”Chandrayaan-3 Mission:Smile, please📸!Pragyan Rover clicked an image of Vikram Lander this morning. The image of the mission was taken by the Navigation Camera onboard the Rover (NavCam). NavCams for the Chandrayaan-3 Mission are developed by the Laboratory for… pic.twitter.com/Oece2bi6zE— ISRO (@isro) August 30, 2023More about Vikram and PragyanThe Chandrayaan-3 lander and rover has completed about half of its designated journey till now and is sending in scientific data every past week. Since both the rover and lander are solar powered they are supposed to only last one lunar day which is 14 days on Earth while the suns light still hits the moons surface.When the moon fails to receive sunlight in the next two weeks it will shut down and signals will be disconnected between the two and the earth, however, there are mechanisms to spring them back to life when the sun rises again after the long night.Moreover, the NavCams, onboard the rover, have been developed by the Laboratory for Electro-Optics Systems (LEOS) in Bengaluru.Elements found in Moon Moreover, new information given out by the Pragyan rover on August 29 suggests the discovery of Sulphur in Moons South Pole. Other elements such as aluminium, calcium, iron, chromium, titanium, manganese, silicon, and oxygen have also been discovered by the rover on the lunar surface.“The Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) instrument onboard Chandrayaan-3 Rover has made the first-ever in-situ measurements on the elemental composition of the lunar surface near 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,” the space agency said in a statement.Right now there is a search for the presence of Hydrogen on the Moons surface which will determine the existence of water on the lunar surface.
