{"id":244261,"date":"2023-08-14T09:19:25","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T13:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=302757"},"modified":"2025-07-01T18:28:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T01:28:41","slug":"the-three-little-brothers-of-the-curiosity-rover-are-preparing-to-explore-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-three-little-brothers-of-the-curiosity-rover-are-preparing-to-explore-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunar Expedition: Trio of ‘Curiosity Rover’ Siblings Gearing Up for Lunar Exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you liked the Curiosity Rover<\/a><\/strong>, wait until you meet its three little siblings. NASA <\/strong>is sending a trio of small rovers (autonomous exploration vehicles) to the Moon with the aim of enhancing mission efficiency. About the size of a suitcase, these four-wheeled vehicles will 3D-map the lunar surface without direct human intervention<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Known as CADRE <\/strong>(short for “Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration”), the intrepid trio will journey to the Moon in 2024<\/a> aboard Intuitive Machines’ third lunar lander, the IM-3<\/strong>, as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS<\/strong>) initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The three small CADRE rovers will descend to the Moon via anchoring within the Reiner Gamma<\/strong> region, a lunar geological feature known as the “lunar swirl.” This area is located in the western Oceanus Procellarum<\/strong>, on the western edge of the near side of the Moon, just north of the equator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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