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Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover

Terry Fong
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Overview of the Volatiles Inspecting Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) mission, with emphasis on lunar rover features, testing, and simulation.

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Overview of the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover

The Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) is a lunar volatiles detection and measurement mission. VIPER will be launched to the Moon in late 2023 as a payload on the Commercial Lunar Payload Services(CLPS) flight provided by Astrobotic's Griffin lander. The VIPER rover is a solar powered, mobile robot de-signed to traverse up to 20 km during a mission lasting up to four lunar days. After landing in a south polar region, the VIPER rover will travel to investigate a range of Ice Stability Regions (ISRs) across scales from 100s of meters to kilometers and conduct surface and subsurface assessment of lunar water and other volatiles. VIPER includes a suite of rover-mounted instruments(three spectrometers and a drill), which the VIPER science mission team will use to characterize the nature of the volatiles and to create global lunar water resource maps.

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