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ISRO Shares Video of Chandrayaan's Rover Doing 'Moon Walk'

The ISRO on Wednesday confirmed that Chandrayaan-3 had touched down on the rocky surface of the Earth's only natural satellite. Thanks to this feat,
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The Indian space agency on Friday shared a video of the Pragyan rover ramping down from the lander Vikram and walking on the lunar crater.
The six-wheel rover took its first walk on the Moon in the early hours of Thursday.
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has confirmed that the Chandrayaan-3 mission is running smoothly on schedule and all its systems are functioning normally.

Pragyan will now complete its study of the mineral composition and the seismic activities in its atmosphere. The rover has two payloads – the LASER-induced Breakdown Spectrometer (LIBS) and the Alpha particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS).

As of now, the mission is for 14 days – one lunar cycle. However, no news has been disclosed on how long the lander and rover will stay on the Moon's surface or when they will return.
India has become the world's fourth nation to land on the Moon and the first to do so near the lunar south pole.
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