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VIPER Site Selection: NASA recently announced the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) landing site west of Nobile crater. The four driving criteria used for site selection were:

• Earth visibility (communication to Earth)
• Sunlight for power and thermal equilibrium
• Potential presence of water
• Terrain that is well-suited for rover navigation

VIPER's  four selection criteria can be combined into a set of simple expressions using the QuickMap ‘Expression Layers Builder” providing an easy to understand color coded parameter map.

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‍Explore and interact over VIPER site using the Lunar QuickMap workflow here, or watch the clip below

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