Chandrayaan-3: India’s moon rover Pragyan takes snaps of lunar lander Vikram
The image was taken by the Navigation Camera onboard the Rover (NavCam)
Chennai: India’s moon rover Pragyan has clicked a snap of its carrier - the moon lander Vikram - on the lunar soil, and the Indian space agency on Tuesday released the same.
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in a post on the social media platform X on Tuesday said: “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).”
Interestingly, ISRO has now called its moon lander as Vikram and the rover as Pragyan.
Earlier the Indian space agency termed them just as Lander and Rover.
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The Indian space agency had called the lander and rover of its Chandrayaan-2 mission as Pragyan and Vikram. However, while attempting a soft landing on the moon, Vikram crashed down.
India on August 23 reached the Moon with its lander safely landing on the lunar soil in a textbook style. Later the rover rolled down and started doing experiments.