Chandrayaan-3: India took a walk on the moon, says ISRO as Pragyan rover rolls out

The moon rover of Indias Chandrayaan3 on Thursday morning rolled out from the spacecraft to begin its exploration of the uncharted lunar surface ISRO said on social media platform X formerly known as TwitterThe countrys space agency said that the spacecraft made a historic landing on the south pole of the moon last evening making India the first country to achieve this featThe Ch3 Rover ramped down from the Lander and India took a walk on the moon More updates soon ISRO posted on XThe first picture of the sixwheeled robotic vehicle Pragyan rolling out of Vikram has been shared by Pawan K Goenka the chairman of Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre a singlewindow independent nodal agency that functions as an autonomous agency in the Department of Space DOSThe Lander and the Rover with a mission life of one Lunar day 14 Earth days have scientific payloads to carry out experiments on the lunar surfaceThe Rover payloads are the LIBS or Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscope and the APXS or Alpha Particle XRay SpectrometerThe LIBS will determine Qualitative and quantitative elemental analysis and to derive the chemical Composition and infer mineralogical composition to further our understanding of LunarsurfaceThe APXS will determine the elemental composition Magnesium Aluminium Silicone Potassium Calcium Titanium and Iron of the Lunar soil and rocks around the lunar landing siteEarlier today President Droupadi Murmu posted a congratulatory message for the ISRO scientists involved with the Chandrayaan3 projectTaking to her official handle on X after the rover rolled out of the lander President Murmu posted I once again congratulate the ISRO team and all fellow citizens for successful deployment of Pragyanrover from inside Vikramlander Its rolling out a few hours after the landing of Vikram marked the success of yet another stage of Chandrayan 3I look forward with excitement alongside my fellow citizens and scientists to the information and analyses that Pragyan will acquire and enrich our understanding of the moon the post readThe successful lunar landing by the Indian Space Research Organisation ISRO came a day after a Russian lander Luna25 crashed on the lunar surface during descentPrime Minister Narendra Modi who is currently attending the 15th BRICS Summit in Johannesburg joined virtually to track the final moments leading up to the touchdown by the Vikram landerAs soon as the lander touched the lunar south face PM Modi was seen sporting a big smile and joyously waving the tricolour The ISRO had been releasing a series of upclose images of the moon assisting the lander module in determining its position latitude and longitude by matching them against an onboard moon reference mapThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever