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The device is one of six scientific payloads the rover will carry to the moon’s south pole to explore permanently shadowed regions that can reach temperatures colder than -200 C. President and CEO Christian Sallaberger told Postmedia the machine will face not just extreme cold, but also boiling hot temperatures during the day and cosmic radiation that threaten to damage electronics.
Even the moon’s microscopically jagged dirt, with a consistency that resembles Portland cement powder, can gum up a rover’s mechanisms, he added.
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