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India’s Pragyan rover completes mission, enters ‘sleep mode’
India’s moon rover Pragyan has completed its two-week mission and has been put into “sleep mode” to conserve power. The rover was switched off after it successfully completed its tasks of conducting experiments and collecting data on the lunar surface.
New Delhi, September 3 (Xinhua) — India’s moon rover Pragyan has completed its two-week mission and has been put into “sleep mode” to conserve power, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said Saturday.
The rover was switched off after it successfully completed its tasks of conducting experiments and collecting data on the lunar surface, the ISRO said in a statement.
“The Pragyan rover has successfully completed its mission objectives,” the statement said. “It has been put into sleep mode to conserve power. The rover will be awakened in the future for further exploration of the lunar surface.”
The Pragyan rover was launched on September 22, 2022, along with the Chandrayaan-3 orbiter and lander. The rover landed on the lunar surface on September 7, 2023, becoming the first Indian spacecraft to do so.
The rover is equipped with a number of instruments, including a spectrometer, a camera, and a magnetometer. It was tasked with studying the chemical composition of the lunar surface, as well as the presence of water ice.
The rover successfully completed its tasks and collected a wealth of data, which will be used by scientists to learn more about the moon.
The ISRO said that the Pragyan rover has been a “great success” and that it has “paved the way for future exploration of the moon.”
