See you around lil guy ๐
The Pragyan rover has completed all its mission objectives and has been put into sleep mode by ISRO to give it the best chance at surviving the Lunar night. ๐
It has been parked at a safe spot, its instruments turned off and solar panel carefully
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- Good night Vikram, you did a great job! ๐ The Vikram Lander was put into sleep mode this morning after having completed and *exceeded* all its primary mission objectives. Just as with Pragyan, this was done to give Vikram the best shot at surviving the Lunar night. โ๏ธ Let us
- We have touchdown...AGAIN! ๐ Yesterday the Vikram Lander fired up its thrusters once again to perform a little hop on the Lunar surface, becoming only the 2nd spacecraft to ever do so! ๐ฅ It lifted off, got to an altitude of only 40 cm and then landed again 30-40 cm away. To
00:00 - ISRO has shared another beautiful photo of Vikram snapped by Pragyan today at 11:04 am IST from about 15 meters away!! ๐ธ #Chandrayaan3 #ISRO
- We are hours away from the launch of Aditya-L1, India's first space-based solar observatory. ๐ฎ๐ณ It is also going to be ISRO's first mission to the L1 point! That's right, unlike what you may have seen in the media, Aditya-L1 is NOT headed to the Sun. โ๏ธ Instead, it is going to a
- Thank you so much everyone for 50k followers!! (Now 51k!) ๐ฅณ It is super nice to know so many of you are interested in the activities of ISRO. ๐
- Yesterday, ISRO revealed the first ever sub-surface temperature readings from the Moon's South Polar region! They used the ChaSTE instrument on the Vikram Lander to drill a probe into the Lunar surface and take temp. readings at various depths.๐ก Results show that while the
- ISRO has finally revealed the first pictures from the Pragyan rover! ๐ธ Turns out Pragyan encountered a 4m dia crater in its path so it retraced its own path back to a safe distance from the crater. #Chandrayaan3 #ISRO
- ๐จ WE HAVE TOUCHDOWN!!! ๐ 40 days, 3 hrs & 29 mins after launch, CHANDRAYAAN-3 has successfully touched down on the Lunar surface!! ๐ MASSIVE congrats to @isro & the global spaceflight community! The south polar region of the Moon is no longer empty! ๐ฐ๏ธ #Chandrayaan3 #ISRO
00:00 - PSLV-C57 carrying #AdityaL1 has been rolled out to the Second Launch Pad at Sriharikota!! The launch is scheduled for Saturday, 2 Sept. at 11:50 AM IST! ๐ #ISRO More images ๐ isro.gov.in/AdityaL1_galleโฆ
- HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE #Chandrayaan3's successful landing means that India is now the 4th country to soft-land a spacecraft on the Moon, and we are now the ONLY country to land successfully near the south pole of the Moon! ๐ฎ๐ณ๐ #ISRO
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