The mission will have a crew of four, but two will remain in lunar orbit while the other pair touches down on the southern polar region and scoots briefly across the surface. And as they do so, they will deploy a suite of scientific instruments to forensically examine what will then be the most important parcel of off-world real estate in the solar system.
The Lunar Environment Monitoring Station (LEMS) package is a remarkably precise seismometer that is designed to listen out for moonquakes and survey the lunar geological underworld. The Lunar Effects on Agricultural Flora (LEAF) instrument will attempt to grow three crops on the moon and study how they respond to the mercurial, extreme environment.
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