2023-08-24 23:26:53
The Pragyan rover started its journey on the moon, raising the nation’s excitement. With this, Pragyan became the eighth rover to operate on the moon. Landers are the mission units that are stationed at the landing site and carry out experiments, while rovers are the ones that travel and explore. The Mars rover missions like Curiosity, Opportunity and Perseverance are world famous. Rover missions to the Moon are known as lunar rovers.
The first rover to land on the Moon was Lunokhod 1, which landed with the Soviet Union’s Luna 17 mission in 1970. It landed in an area of the moon known as the Sea of Rain and operated for 11 months. In 1973, the second Soviet rover, Lunokhod 2, landed on the moon during the Luna 21 mission.
The Lunar Roving Vehicle, which reached the Moon as part of the Apollo missions 15, 16, and 17, is a large variant of the Rover.
Four decades after this, China’s Yutu rover landed on the moon in December 2013 as part of the Chang’e 3 mission. It stopped working after 4 days. In 2018, the Yutu 2 rover arrived in China on the Chang’e 4 mission. Yutu 2, which is still operational, became the longest-running rover on the Moon after 4 years, 7 months and 21 days.
The Chandrayaan 2 rover, UAE’s Rashid and Japan’s Sora-Q are the rovers that failed to land on the moon. ISRO-Japan collaboration Lunar Exploration Mission rover, NASA’s Athlete, European Space Agency’s Heracles, Japan’s Lunar Cruiser, Russia’s Luna-Grunt, and privately owned Scarab are rovers that may reach the moon in the future.
English Summary: Pragyan became the eighth rover to travel on the moon
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