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A Jumping Lunar Robot Is About to Explore a Pitch-Black Moon Crater for the First Time


Packed with instruments and rovers, the soon-to-launch IM-2 mission will explore the lunar south pole and attempt something never done before—to enter a shadowed moon crater to look for ice.

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