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ISRO scientists are eagerly waiting for the Vikram lander and Pragyan rover of Chandrayaan-3 to wake up from their 14-day sleep during the lunar night. The solar batteries have been charged fully and the temperature on the lunar surface needs to rise for the wake-up call to be communicated.
ISRO is planning to reestablish communication with its lunar mission Chandrayaan-3's lander Vikram and rover Pragyan as sunlight returns to the Moon's south polar region. The lander and rover were put into sleep mode earlier this month to protect them from extremely low temperatures. If revived, the mission could gather additional experimental data, helping to further investigate the Moon's surface.
So, if ISRO is able to revive them as the Sun rises on the Moon again, information that is derived from experiments that could once again be conducted by the Chandrayaan-3 payloads would be a 'bonus'.
With dawn breaking on the Moon, ISRO is now gearing up to try to reestablish communication with its lunar mission Chandrayaan-3's solar-powered lander Vikram and rover Pragyan, to revive them so that they can continue with scientific experiments.
If our luck is good, we will have revival of both lander and rover and we will get some more experimental data, which will be useful for us to further do investigation of the Moon's surface: ISRO's Space Applications Centre Director