Into the Belly of the Rover: VIPER’s Final Science Instrument Installed - NASA
A team of engineers prepares to integrate TRIDENT – short for The Regolith Ice Drill for Exploring New Terrain – into the belly of NASA’s first robotic Moon rover, VIPER (Volatiles Invest...
- ames research center
- earth's moon
- general
- in-situ resource utilization (isru)
- viper (volatiles investigating polar exploration rover)
Source: NASA
A team of engineers prepares to integrate TRIDENT – short for The Regolith Ice Drill for Exploring New Terrain – into the belly of NASA’s first robotic Moon rover, VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover). TRIDENT, designed and developed by engineers at Honeybee Robotics in Altadena, California, is the fourth and final science instrument to be installed […]