This ‘crawling’ robot rolled around the moon and took a historic photo
The Palm-Sized Lunar Excursion Vehicle 2 (LEV-2) deployed to the moon during Japan’s Moon Sniper mission has two primary traversal modes: “butterfly stroke” and “crawl”. (Image credit: D. Hirano) When the Japanese Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) spacecraft, nicknamed the “Moon Sniper,” face-planted onto the lunar surface in 2024 , an experimental rover toldContinue Reading











