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First crewed lunar rover Apollo 16: Lunar Roving Vehicle: NASA: 21 April 1972 8.97301°S 15.50019°E: 3 h 26 min 26.55 km (16.50 mi) Apollo 17: Lunar Roving Vehicle: NASA: 11 December 1972 20.1908°N 30.7717°E: 4 h 26 min 35.89 km (22.30 mi) Furthest distance travelled by crewed lunar rover Artemis V: Lunar Terrain Vehicle: NASA: 2030 TBD
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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 .
Launching a rover into space and landing it safely on an alien surface is difficult enough. Then you have to get the thing to actually drive.Humans put seven rovers on the moon and six on Mars ...
In 2020 the State of Washington designated the flown rovers as historic landmarks. [36] [37] Since only the upper stages of the lunar excursion modules could return to lunar orbit from the surface, the vehicles, along with the lower stages were abandoned. As a result, the only lunar rovers on display are LRV-4, test vehicles, trainers, and mock ...
On March 17, 2010, Phil Stooke at the University of Western Ontario announced that he had located Lunokhod 2 in NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) images, [15] [16] [17] but later images showed the initial identification was incorrect (the identified point was a mark in the rover tracks near the end of the route, made as Lunokhod 2 turned ...
The lander first entered a low-power state at around 11:00 am, UTC+8 on 25 December 2013, later executed by the rover at 5:23 am on 26 December 2013 to conserve power as no sunlight will be received by the lander and rover's solar panels for 14 consecutive days. Both had to withstand the extreme cold of the two-week-long lunar nights.
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