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Tuesday, 6/30, 10:44 PM
NASA May Send a Spare Nuclear-Powered Rover to the Moon
- NASA is studying an unusual cost-saver: take a spare rover built as a twin of the Perseverance Mars vehicle and send it to the Moon instead.
- Because it runs on nuclear heat rather than sunlight, it could survive the two-week lunar night — a key edge for exploring the Moon's south pole.
- It's a proposal, not a confirmed mission.