NASA's VIPER Rover will explore the moon's Relay Crater

During a teleconference with journalists on Monday, NASA researchers revealed the decided landing and exploration site for its upcoming VIPER lunar ice survey. Lori Glaze, director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters, announced that the VIPER mission will land along the western edge of "Relay crater" at the moon's south pole. NASA The decision to select this landing site required balancing a number of competing factors. Mission control "considered critical parameters, such as ...