The six-wheeled, solar-powered rover will amble around the relatively unmapped region and transmit images and scientific data over its two-week lifespan.
India began exploring the Moon's surface with a rover, a day after it became the first nation to land a craft near the largely unexplored lunar south pole.
Pragyan --"Wisdom" in Sanskrit -- rolled out of the lander hours after the latest milestone in India's ambitious but cut-price space programme sparked huge celebrations across the country. "Rover ramped down the lander and India took a walk on the moon!" the Indian Space Research Organisation posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Thursday.
The successful touchdown of the Chandrayaan-3 mission came just days after a Russian lander crashed in the same region. It also comes four years after the previous Indian lunar mission failed during final descent, in what was seen at the time as a huge setback for its space programme.
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