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Lander and rover meant for Chandrayaan-2 reaches ISRO's launch pad at Sriharikota

The lander and rover meant for India's second lunar mission Chandrayaan-2  reached the ISRO's launch pad at Sriharikota last night.<br />''<br />'' The rover called Pragyan is installed within the lander known as Vikram. They were flagged off from ISRO laboratory in Bengaluru on Monday.<br />''<br />''Earlier, the orbiter that will house the lander and the rover reached the launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota on Saturday. <br />''<br />''Chandrayaan-2 will be launched aboard India's most powerful booster GSLV-Mark-3 tentatively early in the morning on July 15th with the aim of making the lander to soft-land on the South Pole of the moon by September 6th. India would be the fourth country to have its probe soft-land on the moon. <br />''<br />''"As the orbiter, lander and the rover of Chandrayaan-2 are all in the launch pad in Sriharikota, the scientists of the national space agency are now assembling them together. Later, Chandrayaan-2 will be integrated with the rocket GSLV Mark-Three for its launch as per schedule. <br />''<br />''<br />''The rover, the lander and the orbiter, all have payloads meant for collecting data on the nature of the moon surface. Once the orbiter reaches the lunar orbit of 100-kilometre distance from the moon, the lander will emerge from it and make a slow descend on the lunar south pole. <br />''<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">Once it soft-lands, the rover will leave the lander and move around the moon's surface, collect samples and analyse them. The lunar south pole remains an unexplored area so far and Chandrayaan-2 is expected to unravel some of the mysteries of the earth's only natural satellite. </span><br />

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