The Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) Chandrayaan-3 mission has successfully deployed its rover, called Pragyan, at the Moon’s south pole. Since lunar dust is very different from that on the surface of Earth and in the absence of air on the Moon, it could adhere to materials of the rover, causing issues.
Pragyaan, which can move at a top speed of 1cm per second, is currently driving around rocks and craters, gathering important data as well as images to be sent back to Earth for analysis. The rover contains two scientific instruments which will be used to determine what minerals are present on the lunar surface and study the chemical composition of the soil.
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The mechanisms, the moving items…can get entangled with the dust there. It can get into the moving parts and jam them, the bearings of the system may not work, the motors may not work. All this creates problems in those mechanisms…so let us see how it goes. We will face it…that’s why we are exploring. If everything is known, what is the fun in doing it?,” said S. Somanath, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chief.
