As India counts down to Vikram Lander's final touchdown on the Moon on Saturday- 1:50 AM, ISRO has shared the sequence of events to Chandrayaan 2's soft landing. Vikram will land near the lunar south pole, 71 degrees to the south of the equator and 22.8 degrees east. Once Vikram's landing is successful, the hero of the next part of the mission Pragyan rover will swing into action. Pragyan which will emerge from Vikram on landing on the moon and will study variations in lunar surface composition and to trace back the moon's origins.

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CHANDRAYAAN 2's  FINAL TIMELINE

• 1:38 AM: Rough Braking Start(30KM)
• 1:48 AM: Fine Braking start(~7.4KM)
• 1:50 AM: Local Navigating Start
• 1: 52 AM: First Image of moon surface sent to Earth
• 1:53 AM: Vikram Touch Down
• 3:53 AM: Pragyan Ramp Deployment
• 4:23 AM: Pragyan On
• 5:03 AM: Pragyan Solar Panel Deployment
• 5:19 AM: Pragyan Rover Roll Down
• 5:29 AM: Pragyan Rover Touch Down
• 5:54 AM: Vikram Imaging by Pragyan

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What will happen after soft-landing is successful?

Once India accomplishes soft landing on the moon, Pragyan rover will roam the south pole on the lunar surface to test the possibility of the presence of water. As explained by ISRO, Pragyan is a six-wheeled robotic vehicle i.e rover carrying two payloads. With a 50W power generation capacity, Pragyan can travel upto 500m before it loses power. Pragyan, which weighs 27kg can only communicate with the Lander - Vikram. After Chandrayaan-1 provided evidence of water molecules on the moon, Pragyan will study the extent of water molecule distribution on the surface, below the surface and in the exosphere using its two payloads - Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) and Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscope (LIBS).

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Chandrayaan 2 launch

Chandrayaan-2's rocket lifted off at the scheduled time of 2:43 PM on July 22. The average distance between the Earth and the Moon is 3, 84, 000 km. Vikram lander will land on Moon on the 48th day of the mission on September 7. This moon-lander and rover mission proves that India is taking lead in space exploration as its mission aims to investigate the unexplored south pole of the moon. With Chandrayaan-2 India aims at the soft landing on the Moon. If successful, it will be the fourth country after the US, Russia, and China to do so.

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