chandrayaan 3: what will Happen to Vikram & Pragyan after 14 days
BY - rivanshi rakhrai
India became the first country to land a spacecraft, Chandrayaan-3, near the moon’s south pole on Wednesday
After a failed attempt to land on the moon in 2019, India now joins the United States, the Soviet Union and China as only the fourth country to achieve this milestone
Chandrayaan-3’s lander Vikram and rover Pragyan are solar-powered and have a mission life of one lunar day or around 14 Earth days during which sunlight
The latest sunlight cycle on the moon began on August 23
After 14 Earth days, the sun sets on the moon for another cycle
During that temperatures on lunar surface plummet to minus-180° Celsius, rendering any tech frozenand unusable
No, Chandrayaan-3 components will return to Earth. They shall remain on the moon
The Rs 600 crore Chandrayaan-3 mission was launched on July 14 onboard Launch Vehicle Mark-III (LVM-3) rocket, for a 41-day voyage to reach near the lunar south pole
The moon’s south pole region is also being explored because there could be a possibility of presence of water in permanently shadowed areas around it