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ISRO has released pictures that show that the Pragyan rover has been able to avoid falling into a 4-meter-diameter crater towards which it was heading. When the rover was positioned just 3 meters ahead of the danger, it “was commanded to retrace the path”, ISRO said. This demonstrates the steerability of the rover. If the rover had fallen into the pit, India would have lost about ten days’ worth of experiments that the two instruments onboard the rover could have performed, adding to mankind’s knowledge of science.(After ten days,...