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VIPER is NASA’s first rover that needs headlights.

NASA's first mobile robot VIPER will explore the lunar surface when it launches in 2023 Firstpost 2 hours ago FP Trending © Provided by Firstpost NASA's first mobile robot VIPER will explore the lunar surface when it launches in 2023 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is sending its first mobile robot to the moon and is expected to launch it by late 2023. The robot named Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) is part of the Artemis program. It will map and explore the moon's resources on and under the lunar surface, particularly water-ic...

NASA's ambitious lunar program Artemis will send the agency's first mobile robot to the moon in late 2023.

NASA will send the VIPER rover to the Moon to scout the terrain and find water This will help in the long term sustainability of lunar missions and a future base   It will land at the lunar south pole where craters are in permanent darkness It is thought that water ice is locked away in these ancient regions of the Moon The $433.5 million mission will pave the way for a crewed mission a year later The rover will operate on the lunar surface for 100 days and have headlights 

NASA plans to send first mobile robot to Moon in 2023   Published On VIPER will collet the data at the lunar south pole NEW YORK (Web Desk) - The United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is planning to search for water and other resources on the moon in 2023. The US agency, as part of its Artemis program, is planning to send its first mobile robot to the Moon in late 2023 in search of ice and other resources on and below the lunar surface, it said in a statement. The Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER will collect data that would help NASA ma...