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ISRO chief S Somanath received handmade model of Vikram lander from young neighbour, Pragyan Rover traverses 100 meters on Moons South Pole.

Since the Chandrayaan-3 mission soft-landed on the lunar surface on August 23, the lander and rover have been hard at work, carrying out in-situ scientific experiments.

In a race to accomplish a soft landing on the lunar south pole against India’s Chandrayaan-3 Moon mission, Russia’s spacecraft crash resulted in a crater.

The rover is scheduled to reawaken on September 22, 2023, coinciding with the expected next sunrise on the lunar surface. However, in the event that the rover does not reawaken, it will forever remain on the lunar surface, serving as Indias enduring lunar ambassador.

As NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter made its rounds around the Moon this week, the 14-year veteran space probe ran across something peculiar. In ...

Which brings me to squawks Ive been hearing since Vikrams landing site on the moon was named Shiv Shakti Point. I think its a lovely, apt name, nicely cosmic, cosmological and cosmopolitan a la Nariman Point meets Dashashwamedh Ghat. It also clicks well with the pop cultural iconography of the crescent moon on Shivs head that Ive seen since calendar art was invented.

Last week, PM Modi had announced that the Chandrayaan-3 lander’s touchdown point on the lunar surface would be named ‘Shiv Shakti’. The PM also said the crash site of the failed Chandrayaan -2 mission in 2019 would be called the Tiranga point.

ISRO said that the Pragyan Rover module of the Vikram lander has recorded a natural event on the south pole of the moon.

The lander of Chandrayaan-3 landed on the Moon on August 23 at 6.04 pm.

Taking to X, ISRO said that detection of the source of natural event recorded on moon's south pole by the Pragyan Rover module is underway