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My rover will dig and scoop lunar soil with a bucket-wheel system and a scooper. A bucket-wheel system is found inside the body of my rover to scoop up and collect the soil as the rover moves. The inside of the bucket-wheel system pulls the soil into the center of the wheel where there is large storage space. It can open the storage space by sliding some movable panels on the wheel that will dump the soil wherever it needs to. It also has a hinged scoop on the front that can be lowered to help loosen tough soil and be used to scoop extra soil. It can store the extra soil in another holding container on the top part of the rover. The sides of it’s body are embedded with wires that use solar energy to produce an electrical field to help keep any dust away.