"Smile, Please!": Rover Pragyan Clicks Image Of Lander Vikram On Moon

New Delhi: 

Chandrayaan-3 rover Pragyan shared an image of the lander Vikram on Wednesday, the first that it has clicked using its Navigation camera. The picture is the first that the rover has clicked since landing on the moon. Until now, all the photos and videos had been captured by Vikram.

Sharing the photograph on Twitter, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) called it the "image of the mission".

Smile, please📸! Pragyan Rover clicked an image of Vikram Lander this morning. The 'image of the mission' was taken by the Navigation Camera onboard the Rover (NavCam). NavCams for the Chandrayaan-3 Mission are developed by the Laboratory for Electro-Optics Systems (LEOS) isro.gov.in/LEOS.html
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