Chandrayaan-2 tested on `moon surface´ created with Salem soil
(WorldNews Asia)

Chennai: The Indian space agency has done some hard work on the ground so that its moon lander - Vikram - can soft-land safely and rover - Pragyaan - can move around, said a senior retired official. `The surface of the earth and that of the moon are entirely different. So we had to create an artificial moon surface and test our rover and lander,` M. Annadurai, who retired as Director, U.R. Rao Satellite Centre (URSC), formerly Isro Satellite Centre told IANS. The moon´s surface is covered with craters, rocks and dust and its soil is of different texture as compared to earth´s. Annadurai said the legs of lander and wheels of the rover had to be tested...