It can travel upto 500 meters with its onboard instruments. The rover will measure water bearing minerals in the lunar rock as well as the concentration of elements such as aluminium, silicon and titanium. Meanwhile the landing robot will record Moon Quakes and explore so called Lunar Plasma- a thin layer of electrically charged particles above the surface. Vikram and the rover will be able to collect data for a earth days, then it will go dark for 14 days that's when the temperature drops to 160 degrees below 0 degree celsius.

Vikram, Rover and Orbiter Shown in Figure
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