there s also problem with light. the moon gets two weeks of daylight followed by two weeks of darkness, and this will be a challenge for solar power. and then there s the fine lunar dust. it s particularly clingy and abrasive, which could be an issue for the rover s moving parts. lunar exploration is having a resurgence right now. nasa s new artemis rocket will soon be heading there and eventually taking astronauts to the moon s surface. the idea is to have a permanent lunar base, and rovers could play a crucial role. they could be used anywhere that you want to do something autonomously, so it could be autonomously moving around rovers for building habitats, or it could be used for going to places that are uninhabitable by humans or an extreme temperature or particularly dangerous. so anywhere that you want to do something autonomously, this rover could still use that technology to do that. for now, the rover is out