{"id":54483,"date":"2023-09-26T15:03:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T15:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/indian-space-rover-lander-have-yet-to-awaken-after-enduring-cold-lunar-night"},"modified":"2023-09-26T15:31:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T15:31:20","slug":"indian-space-rover-lander-have-yet-to-awaken-after-enduring-cold-lunar-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/indian-space-rover-lander-have-yet-to-awaken-after-enduring-cold-lunar-night","title":{"rendered":"Indian Space Rover, Lander Have Yet to Awaken After Enduring Cold Lunar Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>The Chandrayaan-3 mission was India\u2019s first successful moon landing and the world\u2019s first near the lunar south pole. India was the fourth nation to soft-land on (that is, not crash into) the moon, following the Soviet Union, United States and China.<\/p>\n

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has not received any communications from the Vikram lander or Pragyan rover it landed on the moon as part of its Chandrayaan-3 mission, after the two robotic space explorers turned off for the two-week-long lunar night.<\/p>\n

The lunar night is over for the part of the moon where Vikram and Pragyan were last seen, and as such is expected to have turned back on and send a message to the ISRO; however, that has not yet happened.<\/p>\n

The main mission of the Chandrayaan-3 explorers was to operate during the lunar day and then enter \u201csleep mode\u201d in preparation for the lunar night. While they were both designed to turn back on once the sun hit their solar panels again, that was never guaranteed and would be considered a bonus for the ISRO. Still, officials expected the two devices would turn on at least one more time after their initial lunar night.<\/p>\n

That tweet, posted 13 hours ago at the time of this writing, has not been followed by an update.<\/p>\n

The ISRO launched the Chandrayaan-3 in July and landed the Vikram on August 23, which then sent out the Pragyan rover. Two weeks later, they shut off to prepare for the night and hoped they would turn back on around this time.<\/p>\n

The ISRO said they hoped they would turn back on, but cautioned the harsh environment would make that difficult.<\/p>\n

While there has been no word from Vikram or Pragyan yet, it is still possible they may wake up as the sun\u2019s rays warm the devices up. \u201cThis sustained period of cold may have caused issues with the equipment, and it may take longer to warm up than was previously planned, especially if the rover is in the shadow of a boulder,\u201d Sarah Casewell of the University of Leicester, UK, told a science-focused outlet.<\/p>\n

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