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A lunar rover or Moon rover is a space exploration vehicle designed to move across the surface of the Moon. The Apollo program 's Lunar Roving Vehicle was driven on the Moon by members of three American crews, Apollo 15 , 16 , and 17 .
The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) is a battery-powered four-wheeled rover used on the Moon in the last three missions of the American Apollo program (15, 16, and 17) during 1971 and 1972. It is popularly called the Moon buggy, a play on the term "dune buggy". Built by Boeing, each LRV has a mass of 462 pounds (210 kg) without payload.
In 2009, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) imaged the various Apollo landing sites on the surface of the Moon, for the first time with sufficient resolution to see the descent stages of the lunar modules, scientific instruments, and foot trails made by the astronauts.
China follows with the Yutu-2 rover in 2019, this time touching down on the moon’s unexplored far side — an impressive first. ... Russia tries for its first moon landing in nearly a half ...
Lunokhod 1 (Russian: Луноход-1 "Moonwalker 1"), also known as Аппарат 8ЕЛ № 203 ("Device 8EL No. 203") was the first robotic rover on the Moon and the first to freely move across the surface of an astronomical object beyond the Earth. [1] Sent by the Soviet Union it was part of the robotic rovers Lunokhod program.
Source: NASA Armstrong took the photo with a 70mm lunar surface camera while the two explored a region of the moon known as the "Sea of Tranquility.". At an event promoting his new book, No Dream ...
First Chinese extraterrestrial rover and first lunar rover in over 40 years. Chang'e 4: Yutu-2: CNSA: 3 January 2019 2250 days 1.455 km (0.904 mi) [170] as of 3 January 2023: Operational First rover on the far side of the Moon. Longest fully functioning rover on the Moon. Chandrayaan-2: Pragyan: ISRO: 6 September 2019 0 days 0 km Precluded
In February 2024, an American spacecraft landed on the moon for the first time in more than 50 years and ushered in a new era of lunar exploration defined by commercial enterprise.. The landing ...