University students from Carnegie Mellon have built a lunar rover named Iris that will be launched to the moon on May 4th. Iris will explore the moon’s surface and send back scientifically-relevant images during its mission.

What is a rover?

A rover is a robot that can drive on the surface of the moon

Important Details

• A group of college students are going to send a special robot to the moon!
• The robot is called “Iris” and it weighs only as much as 2 big bags of sugar.
• Iris will go up to space on a big rocket called Vulcan Centaur.
• The students will instruct Iris and watch it carefully while it takes pictures and conducts experiments on the moon.
• The lunar mission is expected to last for nearly 60 hours.
• The students have been working very hard for years to get Iris ready for this mission.
• They want to demonstrate that even a small rover made by students can work on the moon.
• It will be the first time that a group of regular people, not specialists, send a rover to the moon.
• Another space machine called “The Peregrine” will assist Iris land on the moon.
• People will use it in the future to work on the moon.
• The students have practised many times to make sure everything goes well.

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Have you heard? 🔊 The @NASAPersevere rover captured the sound of a dust devil swirling across the Martian desert. Details: https://t.co/yoPXsIshYh pic.twitter.com/vabpHAhciW

— NASA Mars (@NASAMars) December 14, 2022

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