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My lunar rover design utilizes a negatively charged blanket that’s dragged across the lunar surface to pick up the regolith by using coulomb force which uses the positively charged regolith to its advantage. Once the lunar rover finishes collecting the regolith, it begins rolling the electric-blanket into itself. While the blanket is rolling up into the rover, it gets discharged in sections enabling a diagonal blade to scrape the lunar dust off the blanket pushing it to the internal corner. Once the blanket is done rolling up, the regolith falls into the storage unit. The storage unit takes up a big space of the rover allowing the rover to collect lots of regolith in one trip. The rover also has a metallic body allowing for it to be positively charged keeping the regolith from sticking to the rover. Finally, the rover self charges with solar panels located on the top.