NASA's mini-rovers are set to autonomously demonstrate teamwork and navigation on the Moon, showcasing a pivotal advancement in space exploration.
The project, called CADRE , is part of NASA’s CLPS initiative, which aims to deliver science and technology payloads to the Moon using commercial landers. The three rovers will catch a ride on one of these landers and be lowered onto the Reiner Gamma region of the Moon, where they will charge their solar panels and get ready for the experiments.
"The only instruction is, for example, ‘Go explore this region,’ and the rovers figure out everything else: when they’ll do the driving, what path they’ll take, how they’ll maneuver around local hazards," said JPL’s Jean-Pierre de la Croix, CADRE’s principal investigator. "You only tell them the high-level goal, and they have to determine how to accomplish it."The rovers will face several challenges during their 14-day mission.
At JPL's Mars Yard, the CADRE test rover attracts the notice of OPTIMISM, NASA's larger engineering model of the Perseverance rover.But there are more challenges to CADRE than testing autonomy and teamwork capabilities: The rovers also need to survive the harsh thermal environment near the Moon’s equator, which poses a challenge for such small robots. In the searing sunlight, the rovers could face midday temperatures of up to 237 degrees Fahrenheit .
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