Chandrayaan-3 Rover comes across 4-meter diameter crater on Moon's surface. Here's what happened next
Prime Minister Narendra Modi who was away for the 15th Summit visited the ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network Mission Control Complex on Saturday and highlighted that ISRO's scientists had successfully expanded the 'Make in India' initiative to reach the lunar landscape. “Today, I am feeling a different level of happiness… such occasions are very rare… this time, I was so restless… I was in South Africa but my mind was with you," PM Modi said.
PM Modi has also announced that India will celebrate 23 August as 'National Space Day' to mark the successful touchdown of the Chandrayaan-3 mission's lander. ISRO is sharing regular updates about the Chandrayaan-3 mission as currently, the mission is under the 14-day crucial period window.
“Everything is working very well. Chandrayaan3, the lander, the rover is very healthy and all the five instruments on board have been switched on.
And it's giving beautiful data now. So, we are hoping that in the days to come another ten more days remaining before September 3, we should be able to complete all the experiments with its full capability of various modes," ISRO chief S Somanath said.
“There are different modes for which it has to be tested. So, we have the best picture ever of the Moon," he said.
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