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Two tiny transforming robots landed on the moon! They accompanied Japan’s first successful lunar lander called and are the size of a baseball. They rolled out of SLIM as balls and transformed into a rover by cracking down the middle, each half of the sphere moving outward revealing a little camera in the center. The halves act as spinning wheels and help them waddle, bounce and roll over hard terrain. These little rovers are autonomous and designed to scout out the terrain ahead of larger rovers or go places they can’t.<\/p>\n

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Two tiny transforming robots landed on the moon! These baseball-sized bots accompanied Japan’s first successful lunar lander. They rolled out of SLIM as balls and transformed into a rover. The bots cracked down the middle to reveal a little camera in the center. The halves then acted as spinning wheels that helped them waddle, bounce and roll over hard terrain as they explored. In this roundup of space news, we also get into the latest turn about how much the universe is expanding and the Earthly analogs NASA astronauts are using to prepare for the forthcoming Artemis mission.<\/p>\n

Interested in more space science? Email us your question at <\/em>shortwave@npr.org<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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