Chandrayaan-3: India releases first video of lunar rover Pragyaan’s Moonwalk
New footage has been released via India’s space agency, showing the Chandrayaan-3’s rover for the first time ever.
India is the first country to land near the south pole of the Moon. The country is only the fourth to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, along with the US, former Soviet Union and China.
The Friday morning video showed the rover as it stepped out into the sunshine and its lengthening shadow.
The rover, named Pragyaan, moves at a speed of 1cm per second and is now roaming the rocks and craters, gathering crucial data about what minerals are present on the lunar surface.