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Can Chandrayaan-3 Document the Luna-25 Wreckage?
Can Chandrayaan-3 Document the Luna-25 Wreckage?
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After India's Chandrayaan Vikram lander touched down, the Pragyan rover started sending photographs of the dark side of the Moon.
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After India's Chandrayaan Vikram lander touched down, the Pragyan rover started sending photographs of the dark side of the Moon. A curiosity developed within the people if Chandrayaan rover could also share the pictures of the crashed site of the Luna-25 wreckage. Some people have developed a curious interest in whether the Chandrayaan-3 rover could share pictures of Luna-25's crash site. Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft experienced a crash due to engine failure on the 19th of August. As per the reports, the engines did not shut down as planned, resulting in an uncontrolled descent of the lander onto the Moon's surface. The six-wheeled Pragyan can move only one centimeter per second and must stay within 500 meters of the Vikram lander for communication. Notably, the lander cannot move or change its location. Moreover, Pragyan's life-expectancy is only 14 days, one moon day. After that nighttime starts and the temperature can drop as much as up to -208 degrees Fahrenheit or -133 degrees Celsius.The machine is expected to stop functioning after this. Vikram and Pragyan will remain dormant due their inability to operate without sunlight and their general reliance on solar energy.India successfully landed the world's first spacecraft on the South Pole of the Moon on the August 23. The mission was launched on the 14th of July and the lunar orbit was reached on the 5th of August. The Vikram descent module separated from the station on the 17th of August and performed two orbit-descent operations before landing.
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Can Chandrayaan-3 Document the Luna-25 Wreckage?
13:51 29.08.2023 (Updated: 17:49 31.08.2023) Deexa Khanduri
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In August Russia's Luna-25 and India's Chandrayaan-3 both attempted a soft landing on the Moon's South Pole. However, the landing sites of these two satellites' modules were hundreds of kilometers away from each other.
After
India's Chandrayaan Vikram lander touched down, the Pragyan rover started
sending photographs of the dark side of the Moon.
A curiosity developed within the people if Chandrayaan rover could also share the pictures of the crashed site of the Luna-25 wreckage. Some people have developed a curious interest in whether the Chandrayaan-3 rover could share pictures of Luna-25's crash site.
Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft experienced a crash due to engine failure on the 19th of August. As per the reports, the engines did not shut down as planned, resulting in an
uncontrolled descent of the lander onto the Moon's surface.
Nathan Eismont, a leading researcher at the Space Research Institute (IKI), told Sputnik: "The Indian lunar rover Pragyan is capable of moving only for short distances. It will not be able to reach the crash site of the Russian interplanetary station Luna-25 and photograph its wreckage."
The six-wheeled Pragyan can move only one centimeter per second and must stay within 500 meters of the Vikram lander for communication. Notably, the lander cannot move or change its location.
"Due to its (Pragyan's) functions, it cannot do this (take pictures of the crashed Luna-25). In principle, such a task can be performed. But it should be a
special separate task and another device, much more complex and expensive," Eismont said.
Moreover, Pragyan's life-expectancy is only 14 days, one moon day. After that
nighttime starts and the temperature can drop as much as up to -208 degrees Fahrenheit or -133 degrees Celsius.
The machine is expected to stop functioning after this. Vikram and Pragyan will remain dormant due their inability to operate without sunlight and their general reliance on solar energy.
India successfully landed the world's first spacecraft on the South Pole of the Moon on the August 23. The mission was launched on the 14th of July and the lunar orbit was reached on the 5th of August.
The Vikram descent module separated from the station on the 17th of August and performed two orbit-descent operations before landing.
