Following an eventful lunar day, India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission has been put to sleep to wait out the dreadful darkness of the Moon’s nighttime. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) set its Vikram lander to sleep mode on Sunday at 10:30 p.m. ET, switching off its payloads while keeping its receivers on, the space agency announced on X, formerly Twitter . The lander’s companion on the Moon, the Pragyan rover, “will fall asleep next to Pragyan once the solar power is depleted and the battery is drained,” ISRO wrote on X. Advertisement India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission successfully landed on the Moon on...