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Here Is the Robot That Will Extract Water From the MoonQuicklink submitted by Kyle McDermott Permalink,
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 The RASSOR robot climbs a hill during a recent test at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. by NASA |
Meet ... the Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot - RASSOR, for short. The robot (pronounced as 'razor') is an excavator device, designed to extract (yes) water, (yes) ice, and (yes) fuel from the soil of the moon. And from the soil of similarly dusty bodies (like, say, Mars). NASA is envisioning that RASSOR, currently in development in prototype form, will not only perform the Greek-fable-meets-rocket-science-reality task of getting water from rocks; it will also take the remaining dust and convert the chemicals it contains into two things crucial to astronauts: air for breathing, and fuel for moving. 'The robot,' NASA says, 'would be the feeder for a lunar resource processing plant, a level of industry never before tried anywhere besides Earth.' |
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