

NASA will host a media teleconference Monday, Sept. 20, at 4 p.m. EDT, to announce the lunar landing internet site for the agencys Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER). The rover will be shipped to the Moons area in late 2023 less than the Artemis program and component of the agencys Industrial Lunar Payload Products and services initiative.


VIPER is the first useful resource-mapping mission on the surface area of an additional celestial body. When on the Moon, VIPER will get a near-up see of the location and concentration of ice and other means, assisting in the improvement of science and human exploration as portion of Artemis missions.


Researchers and mission operators will leverage in the vicinity of real-time Earth-to-Moon communications and perform jointly to push the rover along an unexplored location of the Moons South Pole.


Audio of the teleconference will stream dwell online at:


https://www.nasa.gov/are living


Briefing members are:

- Lori Glaze, director of the Planetary Science Division, NASA Headquarters
- Daniel Andrews, VIPER project manager, NASAs Ames Study Center
- Anthony Colaprete, VIPER direct undertaking scientist, Ames
- Darlene Lim, VIPER deputy lead job scientist, Ames
- Darryl Gaines, deputy supervisor, NASA Industrial Lunar Payload Services, NASAs Johnson House Center


To take part in the teleconference, media need to e-mail their title and affiliation to joshua.a.han[email protected] by 3:45 p.m. Monday, Sept. 20, at for dial-in info.


Find out far more about the VIPER mission at:


https://www.nasa.gov/viper




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