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Resource Prospector Mobility Test
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Engineers wearing protecting garb, make adjustments to a lightweight simulator version of NASA's Resource Prospector undergoes a mobility test in a regolith bin at the agency's Kennedy Space center in Florida. The Resource Prospector mission aims to be the first mining expedition on another world. Operating on the moon’s poles, the robot is designed to use instruments to locate elements at a lunar polar regions, then excavate and sample resources such as hydrogen, oxygen and water.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineResource Prospector Mobility Test. NASA/KSC, 2017-06-28. Public domain. ID: KSC-20170628-PH_KLS01_0061.