These are a battery pack, a communications unit, and the unique-to-Apollo-17 Traverse Gravimeter Experiment (TGE). The TGE was used to measure the moon’s gravity and geological substructure.

the first mission to use the four-wheel-drive lunar rover. John Young, Ken Mattingly and Charlie Duke of Apollo 16 and Gene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt of Apollo 17 traveled ever ...

Apollo 17—like Apollos XV and XVI—left tire tracks ... the fender on the right rear wheel of the Apollo XVII lunar rover broke off. “Oh, there goes a fender. Oh shoot!” ...

So how did NASA build an electric rover that worked in outer space ... driven on a single mission was the final manned Moon landing, Apollo 17, where astronauts covered roughly 22 miles during ...

The VIPER rover is designed to roll about the ... It constituted the first successful American moon landing since the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972. The company has two more Nova-C missions ...

The last of the Apollo crews, Apollo 17, spent the most time on ... Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER. It would explore the moon’s south pole in late 2024, NASA says ...

The lunar rover built by ispace never launched ... Sunday marked the 50th anniversary of astronauts’ last lunar landing, by Apollo 17’s Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt on Dec. 11, 1972.

The Moon Is 40 Million Years Older Than Previously Thought Oct. 23, 2023 — By analyzing tiny lunar crystals gathered by Apollo 17 astronauts ... a modern lunar cabin, rover and mobile home.

Apollo 8: Several photos of the moon in Apollo 8's collection show it in bright vibrant colors, including red and blue.

Lego designers have done it again. One of the newest sets from the Technic team is a detailed recreation of the Apollo 17 lunar rover, which allowed the astronauts to travel the farthest distance ...