Chandrayaan-3: Rover Pragyan goes into sleep mode, expected to ‘wake up’ on September 22

Chandrayaan-3’s rover Pragyan has been put into sleep mode now as it completed all its assignments. The rover has traversed over 100 metres on the Moon’s surface and now has been parked safely. ISRO on September 02 informed that the APXS and LIBS payloads have been turned off. 11 days ago, India scripted history after Lander Vikram’s safe ‘touchdown’ on Moon’s South Pole. Since then, Rover Pragyan and Lander Vikram have carried out several operations on the Moon’s surface. The temperature profile of the lunar topsoil was checked to understand the thermal behaviour of the Moon. After the success of the lunar mission, India has continued its space exploration with its solar mission Aditya-L1. On Sept 02, ISRO successfully launched its much-anticipated ‘Aditya-L1’ mission to the Sun from Satish Dhawan Space Centre.