ISRO hopes rover will last beyond 14 days

The surface of the Moon captured after the landing. Pic/PTI

After the successful deployment of Chandrayaan-3's lander and rover on the moon, ISRO is hoping that their mission life will not be limited to one lunar day or 14 earth days, and that they will come back to life when the sun again rises on the Moon, to carry on with the experiments and studies there.

Earlier on Thursday, ISRO announced that the rover (Pragyan) rolled down from the lander (Vikram) and "India took a walk on the Moon."

The lander and rover are designed to operate for one lunar daylight period to study the surroundings there. However, ISRO officials do not rule out the possibility of them coming back to life for another lunar day. The rover will carry out in-situ chemical analysis of the lunar soil and rocks. The rover will send the data to the lander which will then send it to Earth.

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