India's sun-monitoring spacecraft has crossed a landmark point on its journey to escape 'the sphere of Earth's influence', its space agency said, days after the disappointment of its moon rover failing to awaken.
India's sun-monitoring spacecraft has crossed a landmark point on its journey to escape"the sphere of Earth's influence", its space agency said, days after the disappointment of its moon rover failing to awaken.mission, which started its four-month journey towards the center of the solar system on September 2, carries instruments to observe the sun's outermost layers.
At that point, the gravitational forces of both astronomical bodies cancel out, allowing the mission to remain in a stable halo orbit around our nearest star. Rover Pragyan surveyed the vicinity of its landing site but was powered down before the start of lunar night, which lasts roughly two weeks on Earth.
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