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NASA announces landing site for robotic moon rover mission



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NASA has announced the landing site for its robotic lunar rover which is planned to reach the moon in 2023.The VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) will land near the Nobile Crater at the moon’s south pole where it will explore and map both the surface and the subsurface to identify water and other resources
It is part of the space agency’s Artemis programme, named after the mythological sister of Apollo, the first moon mission’s namesake, which aims to take the first woman and the next man to the lunar surface by 2024 – although that date is now in question.

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