WATCH VIDEO: ISRO Shared Another Video of Chandrayaan-3’s Pragyan Over Taking a Walk on the Moon

WATCH VIDEO: ISRO Shared Another Video of Chandrayaan-3’s Pragyan Over Taking a Walk on the Moon

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Saturday shared another video of Chandrayaan-3’s Pragyan rover, which can be seen taking a stroll on the South Pole of the Moon. “Pragyan rover roams around Shiv Shakti point in pursuit of lunar secrets at the South Pole,” the space agency wrote on X, formerly Twitter, sharing the 40-second video.

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Pragyan rover roams around Shiv Shakti Point in pursuit of lunar secrets at the South Pole 🌗! pic.twitter.com/1g5gQsgrjM

— ISRO (@isro) August 26, 2023

Chandrayaan-3 touched down on the lunar surface on Wednesday at 8:33 a.m. EDT (1233 GMT or 6:03 p.m. India Standard Time). Since then, ISRO has released several sets of images, including four captured during descent, as well as the lander’s first up-close glimpse at the pockmarked lunar surface upon landing. On Thursday (Aug. 24), the agency shared a new video sequence showing the view of the moon’s surface through the eyes of the Lander Imager Camera taken only a few moments before touchdown.

Pragyan and Vikram will spend two weeks studying the region around the mission’s landing site, an area of great scientific interest near the lunar south pole. In addition to being India’s first successful lunar landing mission, Chandrayaan-3 is also the world’s first mission to explore the moon’s southern polar region from the surface rather than from orbit.

Scientists think that the permanently shadowed craters around the moon’s poles hide deposits of frozen water that could be extracted and used by future human crews. That would help reduce the cost of human exploration, as astronauts wouldn’t need to bring water with them. They could also use this water to make oxygen, another life-critical consumable. In the future, hydrogen and oxygen made from splitting lunar water could be used as fuel for rockets heading to Mars and beyond.

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