Chandrayaan-3 LIVE Updates: Will Vikram lander, Pragyan rover wake up as ISRO to try reactivation today
India-Canada row here"Vikram Lander and Pragyan Rover have been in deep sleep for almost two weeks now. It is almost like taking out something from the freezer and then trying to use it. The temperatures would have gone beyond -150 degrees Celsius," ISRO Chairman Madhavan Nair told ANI.“The solar heat will warm up the instruments and also recharge the batteries.
If both these conditions are successfully met, there is a fairly good chance that the system will be operational again."Former ISRO scientist Tapan Mishra said that confirming the presence of water is the next important thing.“There was a lesser induced spectroscopy instrument. It has shown us all the expected metals there. It has also shown us the presence of oxygen there, but we are looking for water.
The oxygen can come from the breaking of any other silicon material which is actually the basis of all the rocks anywhere in the universe, also it can come from the breaking up of water. But if we could detect hydrogen there, detecting the presence of hydrogen would conclusively prove that there is water because hydrogen is never part of any other compound. So in that case we will be able to conclusively prove that there is water there.
We have remote sensing-wise shown the presence of water. Now physically also we will able to show," he added.Yesterday, ISRO in a post on X wrote, “Efforts have been made to establish communication with the Vikram lander and Pragyan rover to ascertain their wake-up condition. As of now, no signals have been received from them.
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