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Meet VIPER, NASA’s New Water-Hunting, Crater-Crushing Lunar Rover – Gizmodo Australia

Equipped with headlights and a suite of powerful instruments, NASA’s VIPER is poised to revolutionise our understanding of lunar water, and how much of it might…

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Equipped with headlights and a suite of powerful instruments, NASAs VIPER is poised to revolutionise our understanding of lunar water, and how much of it might be available to future explorers. Heres what you need to know about the golf cart-sized rover, which is scheduled to reach the Moon in late 2023.
VIPER, or Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, will map the location and abundance of water at the lunar South Pole, in a NASA mission thats expected to last for 100 days. The four-wheeled,…

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