Into the Belly of the Rover: VIPER’s Final Science Instrument Installed 

Into the Belly of the Rover: VIPER’s Final Science Instrument Installed 

Feb 13, 2024

A team of engineers prepares to integrate TRIDENT – short for The Regolith Ice Drill for Exploring New Terrain – into the belly of NASA’s first robotic Moon rover, VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover).  TRIDENT, designed and developed by engineers at Honeybee Robotics in Altadena, California, is the fourth and final science instrument to be installed

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