India’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft landed on the moon’s south pole on Wednesday (23) and the Pragyan exploration robot is already walking on the surface of Earth’s natural satellite this Friday (25).

Chandrayaan 3 landed on lunar soil last Wednesday (23) – Photo: ISRO/AFP/ND

After sending the first image of the region to Isro, the Indian space agency, the first photos of the probe itself are now emerging.

In addition to the photograph taken by the rover, Isro published images from the horizontal velocity camera that guided the spacecraft’s landing on a natural satellite.

Pragyan explores the moon

India began exploring the moon’s surface with an exploration robot on Thursday, a day after it became the first country to land an unmanned spacecraft near the moon’s south pole.

The Pragian robot, “wisdom” in Sanskrit, rolled out of its lander just hours after India completed a major milestone in its ambitious low-cost space program, sparking huge euphoria across the country.

The mobile robot “came off the lander and India stepped on the moon,” ISRO (Indian Special Research Organization) reported on Platform X (formerly Twitter).

The day before, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke about the success of the mission on that “historic day”.

A six-wheeled, solar-powered robot will travel across this poorly mapped area of ​​the satellite and relay images and science data over the course of a two-week mission.