Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Whispers on the Winds

The WSL-3 rover, also known as Explorer, high over Wellington's western hemisphere.

Another in a long line of explorers, the WSL-3 rover begins its final, fiery decent to Wellington's surface.

Its mission is to explore the edge of a small sea on the western hemisphere of the moon. If the initial findings from previous probes are any indication, Explorer's year on the surface won't be uneventful.