Rover-Pragyan:
The mission's rover is called Pragyan. The rover's mass is about 27 kg (60 lb) and will operate on solar power.
The rover will move on 6 wheels traversing 500 meters on the lunar surface at the rate of 1 cm per second, performing on-site chemical analysis and sending the data to the lander, which will relay it to the Earth station.
Pragyan Rover Mission Payloads:
Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS): The primary objective of APXS is to determine the elemental composition of the lunar surface near the landing site of the rover. It achieves this goal through the utilization of X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy technique, where the X-ray or alpha particles are utilized to excite the surface. APXS makes use of radioactive Curium (244) metal which emits high-energy, alpha particles, X-rays which enables both X-ray emission spectroscopy as well as the X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy. Through these intricate techniques, APXS can detect all the major rock-forming elements such as Sodium, Magnesium, Silica, Aluminium, Calcium, Iron, Titanium, and some trace elements like Strontium, Yttrium as well as Zirconium. 
Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS): The primary objective of LIBS is to identify and also determine the abundance of elements near the landing site on the lunar surface. It does this by firing the high-powered laser pulses at several locations and also by analyzing the radiation emitted by the decaying plasma.
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