NASA is building a new probe to study the polar ice of the Moon

It has been more than a decade since water was detected on the moon. At that time, an instrument on an Indian satellite was able to detect water molecules on the floor of the moon’s shadowy craters. Now NASA plans to start a search for ice at the moon’s poles. For this reason, he has started the construction of the probe for this search. The probe will be the size of a golf cart and will be able to enter the dark craters of the moon to detect ice deposits.

According to Tekna’s technology and technology news service, Anthony Kolaprit, a NASA project scientist, said in his explanation about the construction of this probe: A large group of scientists have been working on this idea for about ten years. Since the beginning of this year, Johnson Space Center scientists have been working on the chassis of this probe. This probe is supposed to be launched in November 2024, and the VIPER team is also responsible for its complete assembly and testing.

The four-wheeled Mars rover is very different from the space agency’s robots currently on Mars. Due to its design, the VIPER probe is able to enter dark craters and go to places where sunlight has not entered for billions of years.

Colaprit announced at NASA’s Exploration Science Society conference that the first prototype of the probe will be equipped with a headlight because it will have to enter dark places. This probe will move on the surface of the moon with its LED lights, and these lights will create a blue color on the moon. This probe will be able to travel between Earth and Mars at the speed of light. Its journey to the moon also takes only a few seconds and scientists can control it remotely.