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Letter: Down to moon

Published 13 April 2011

From John Coburn

I enjoyed the article by Greg Klerkx about private ventures sending rovers to land on the moon in competition for the Google Lunar X Prize (5 March, p 46). But I was perplexed by the parachutes bringing rovers onto the moon’s surface pictured in the image on the opening spread. They would, I imagine, suffer some serious technical issues.

Waimauku, New Zealand

Issue no. 2808 published 16 April 2011

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