Overseas: Lori Glaze, director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA headquarters, has announced that the VIPER mission will land at the western end of the Moon Pole Relay. The decision to choose this landing site requires a balance of some competitive factors.


The mission monitoring considered key constraints, such as Earth visibility for moon-to-Earth communications, sunlight, geography, suitable terrain for robots to explore, and most importantly, the presence of ice and other resources. Expected.During the 100-day mission, VIPER robots are expected to explore at least six potential sites covering an area of ​​about 16 km to 24 km of the lunar surface across one of the cold regions. In our solar system studied to date. That includes non-solar pits that could potentially hold frozen water.