Both ISRO's Vikram lander and Pragyan rover run on solar power ... and China — to land on the moon, and the first to ever land near the lunar south pole. The lunar south pole region is of ...

A photo of the Vikram lander taken by Pragyaan rover on Wednesday morning Exactly a week ago, India set down a robotic probe on the Moon, becoming the first country to land near the lunar south pole.

After its victorious first round of primary mission goals, India's Chandrayaan-3 lunar rover and lander — the first spacecraft to successfully land on ... via the Lander. Vikram followed suit ...

The first shows Vikram releasing a 57-pound, six-wheeled rover called Pragyaan — Sanskrit ... the news comes after Russia's efforts to land its Luna-25 spacecraft on the Moon ended in disaster ...

India’s groundbreaking Moon lander and rover that made history last month after becoming the first spacecraft to soft land on the lunar ... with both the Vikram lander and Pragyan rover, that ...

In essence, if the Vikram lander and Pragyan rover do not wake up, they will stay on the Moon as ambassadors of India and as proof that India was the first to land on an unexplored part of the moon.

planned Chandrayaan-3's landing date with the same accuracy and precision that helped them land the 1,752 kg Vikram lander (with the Pragyan rover inside) nearly 400,000 km from Earth. August 23 ...

Vikram and Pragyan: Vikram Lander, Chandrayaan-2’s landing module, will soon begin its descent and make the historic soft landing on the lunar surface between 1.30-2.30 am and deploy the Pragyan ...

Now, a new video from the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), which is operating the mission, shows the sunlit rover ... to land and work in. Related: Pragyan, Vikram, Vikas: How did ...

ISRO is hopeful that contact can be re-established with Vikram and Pragyan. Both Vikram Land Rover and Pragyan Rover are 'safely parked' after they were put into 'sleep mode' almost a month ago.