The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is riding on the high of its Chandrayaan-3 lunar mission’s successful landing, sharing more of it with the world by posting a brand new video of the lander’s imager observing the rover because it rotates on the no-longer-Super-Blue Moon’s surface.
The post describes the rover as a baby “playfully frolicking within the yards of Chandamama” in a video captured on August twenty ninth. Chandamama is a term of endearment toward the Moon in Hindi and other regional languages and can also be utilized in nursery rhymes. (My mom used to sing this to me as a lullaby.)
The rotation commands to the rover come after ISRO needed to make a path correction for the rover’s movements to avoid a crater — following its exit from the lander, down the ramp, and onto the Moon’s surface. And yesterday, the rover, Pragyan, used its navigation camera to take an image of its lunar lander buddy named Vikram.