Pragyan Rover Walks 8 Meters on 1st Day on Moon

New Delhi: The Pragyan Rover of India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission covered a distance of eight meters on the moon’s surface, according to an update from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) released on Friday.

ISRO reported, “All planned Rover movements have been verified. The Rover has successfully traversed a distance of about 8 meters. Rover payloads LIBS and APXS are turned ON. All payloads on the propulsion module, lander module, and rover are performing nominally,” via an update uploaded to X.

Chandrayaan-3 Mission:

All planned Rover movements have been verified. The Rover has successfully traversed a distance of about 8 meters.

Rover payloads LIBS and APXS are turned ON.

All payloads on the propulsion module, lander module, and rover are performing nominally.…

— ISRO (@isro) August 25, 2023

The payloads onboard Chandrayaan-3, namely the Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscope and the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS), designed for analyzing the elemental composition near the landing site, have been functioning as expected, ISRO noted. The lander, rover and all the payloads continue to operate within normal parameters.