Japan firm's rover ends mission on Moon, gives up surface exploration

Japanese startup Dymon Co. said Saturday its ultra-compact, lightweight rover, which reached the Moon aboard a U.S. lander, will not proceed with its planned lunar exploration, bringing its mission to an end.The Tokyo-based firm's 498-gram rover, Yaoki, measuring around 14 centimeters in length and width and 8 cm in height, remained mounted on U.S. company Intuitive Machines Inc.'s lander Athena, which was declared dead after landing on its side in the early hours of Friday, Japan time.It landed some 250 meters away from the intended site of the lunar south pole, where it was unable to rech…READ FULL ARTICLE