Jaxa, the Japanese Space Agency, has confirmed that it intends to use a transformable lunar robot to obtain data about the Moon’s surface. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) plans to obtain data on the lunar surface , the regolith, via a small shape-changing robot. The data collected, it says, will aid the design for ...

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