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NEW DELHI (Reuters) -The moon rover of India’s Chandrayaan-3 exited the spacecraft on Thursday morning to begin its exploration of the lunar surface, the country’s space agency said on messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
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The spacecraft landed on the unexplored south pole of the moon on Wednesday evening, making India the first country to achieve this feat.
“The Ch-3 Rover ramped down from the Lander and India took a walk on the moon!” the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said in its message.
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(Reporting by Sakshi Dayal; Editing by Tom Hogue and Christopher Cushing)
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