India switched off its moon rover, the first craft to reach the lunar south pole, after it completed its two-week assignment conducting experiments, the country'sspace agency said.The Pragyan rover from the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft was &set into Sleep mode& but with batteries charged and receiver on, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, late on Saturday.&Hoping for a successful awakening for another set of assignments!& ISRO said.
&Else, it will forever stay there as India'slunar ambassador.&By landing on the moon, India joined the United States, China and the former Soviet Union.
It went beyond them in reaching the rugged south pole, shortly after Russia'sLuna-25 crashed on a similar attempt, Reuters reported.Chandrayaan-3'ssoft, textbook touchdown after a failed attempt in 2019 sparked widespread jubilation in the world'smost populous country.
The media hailed the landing as India'sgreatest scientific feat.Pragyan travelled over 100 m (330 feet), confirming the presence of sulphur, iron, oxygen and other elements on the moon, ISRO said.Now India is hoping for the success of a probe launched on Saturday to study the sun, observing solar winds that can cause disturbance on earth commonly seen as auroras.&The satellite is healthy& and in earth orbit, ISRO said on Sunday, as it prepares for its 1.5 million-km (930,000-mile) journey.The post Mission accomplished, India puts moon rover to ‘sleep& first appeared on Ariana News.