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The Luna Regolith Extractor Rover uses a LASER drill to extract a tube-shaped core sample from beneath the lunar surface. On the tip of the drill there is a cutting-edge three fingered gripper to hold the regolith in place before it is slid into the sample storage to be taken back to earth by a future manned mission to the moon. It has a service panel so that the plutonium-90 in the power sources can be replaced and so that the connectors and ports can be accessed and repaired. One of the benefits of Luna is its high-tech navigation system, which includes one rear hazard camera and a camera stem. Also, the Luna wheel base has six motorized castor wheels that can tilt so that the Luna can handle lunar terrain. Luna uses a magnetic dust mitigation technique to prevent dust buildups on the rover.