EditorialA photo provided by NASA shows engineers at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., testing robotics software on an engineering prototype of the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER. (Dominic Hart/NASA via The New York Times)
EditorialA photo provided by NASA shows engineers at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., testing robotics software on an engineering prototype of the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER. (Dominic Hart/NASA via The New York Times)
EditorialEngineers at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland test a model of the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, rover. (Bridget Caswell, Alcyon Technical Services/NASA via The New York Times)