Chandrayaan 3: Will India's Pragyan rover meet China's Yutu 2? Distance between them is…

Chandrayaan 3: India's Pragyan and China's Yutu 2 are the only on rovers on the moon

Following the historic touchdown of Chandrayaan 3's Vikram lander, the Pragyan rover has effectively been deployed near the moon's south pole. Currently, the only active rover on the lunar surface besides India's is China's Yutu 2 rover, sent by Chang’e 4. So, how far are these two rovers?

China has shared limited updates about the current status of its Yutu 2 rover, known as Jade Rabbit in Chinese. However, Bloomberg reported the rover to be still traversing the lunar surface, adding that it powers down during the two-week lunar night when temperatures plummet to below minus 170°C.

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What's the approximate distance between the Pragyan and Yutu 2 rovers?

Chang'e-4 landed in the Von Karman crater in the South Pole-Aitkin Basin on 3 January 2019, becoming the first spacecraft to make a controlled landing on the far side of the Moon. Landing coordinates were 45.4561 S latitude, 177.5885 E longitude, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).