College students set to make history with shoebox-sized rover on the moon

A group of around 300 college students from Carnegie Mellon University have built a shoebox-sized lunar rover called Iris, which will be the first privately-made American robot to explore the surface of the moon. Iris will be launched in May and will spend 50 hours on the moon's surface before running out of battery. The project cost around $800,000 and was funded partly by CMU while the rest came from private donors and crowdsourced fundraisers. The rover has two cameras that will help it capture images of dust on the moon's surface.