Meet RASSOR — the Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot. It's the robot that will help NASA find water on the moon, and could eventually lead a permanent, manned lunar base. RASSOR is an excavator that NASA hopes will extract water, ice, and fuel from lunar soil. It's able to traverse steep slopes, climb over rocks, and dig for and collect soil before taking it to a processing plant for water extraction. NASA says that RASSOR will "be the feeder for a lunar resource processing plant, a level of industry never before tried anywhere besides Earth."
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/30/3931782/nasa-rassor-water-mining-moon-robot-prototype
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