Chandrayaan-3 India's third space mission to the Moon after a month-long journey is all set to create history on Wednesday. The Lander Module will touch down near the South Pole of the Moon today, becoming the first to venture into the uncharted region of the Earth's natural satellite.
The Lander Module, comprising the lander 'Vikram' and rover 'Pragyan', will demonstrate safe and soft-landing on the Moon's surface, roving on the Moon, and conduct in-situ scientific experiments.
The Lander and the Rover have scientific payloads to carry out experiments on the lunar surface. The main function of the Propulsion Module (PM) was to carry the Lander Module (LM) from the launch vehicle injection till final lunar 100 km circular polar orbit and separate the LM from PM, which it did.
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India's moon rover has come out of the moon lander and is on the latter's ramp, said a top official of INSPACe."First photo of rover coming out of the lander on the ramp," Pawan K Goenka, Chairman, INSPACe, the regulator for private players in .
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