{"id":486936,"date":"2023-09-03T11:36:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T06:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=486936"},"modified":"2023-09-03T11:37:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T06:07:45","slug":"chandrayaan-3-pragyan-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/chandrayaan-3-pragyan-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Chandrayaan-3: Pragyan Rover put to sleep mode on Moon, ISRO says may wake up in 14 days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Indian Space Research Organisaton on Saturday informed that the Pragyan Rover has been put into sleep mode after completing all its mission objectives on the Moon so that it can survive the Lunar night. The space agency further stated that Rover may wake up on September 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Rover has been parked at a safe spot, its instruments turned off and the solar panel carefully oriented to receive maximum sunlight at the time of the next sunrise on September 22, ISRO said. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">See you around lil guy \ud83d\udc4b<br><br>The Pragyan rover has completed all its mission objectives and has been put into sleep mode by ISRO to give it the best chance at surviving the Lunar night. \ud83d\udecc<br><br>It has been parked at a safe spot, its instruments turned off and solar panel carefully\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Fih99mj88Z\">pic.twitter.com\/Fih99mj88Z<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ISRO Spaceflight (@ISROSpaceflight) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ISROSpaceflight\/status\/1698036525471309935?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 2, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, after a successful launch of Aditya L1 sun mission, ISRO Chairman S Somanath said while addressing the team that the Pragyan rover and Vikram lander are still functional. ISRO has started the process of placing both of them into sleep mode in the next one to two days as they need to tolerate the lunar night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The space agency&#8217;s announcement came hours after its chief S Somanath said the lunar mission&#8217;s rover and lander, Pragyaan and Vikram, respectively were functioning well and they would be put to sleep soon to withstand the night on the Moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a successful soft landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the south pole of the Moon on August 23, the Indian Space Research Organisation on August 29 said that the Pragyan rover of the Chandrayaan-3 mission has unambiguously confirmed the presence of sulphur on the lunar surface near the south pole, through first-ever in-situ measurements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscope (LIBS) instrument onboard the Pragyan rover also detected aluminium, calcium, iron, chromium, titanium, manganese, silicon and oxygen, as expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ISRO also said that the hunt for hydrogen in the Moon\u2019s south pole is underway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBS is a scientific technique that measures the composition of minerals by exposing them to an intense laser pulse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ISRO also shared a graph of the observation on X, illustrating the temperature variation of the lunar surface at various depths, as recorded during the probe\u2019s penetration. 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