US students beat NASA to land first moon rover.

Carnegie Mellon University students, faculty, and alumni have developed the Iris rover, which is set to become America's first autonomous rover on the moon. The 4.4-pound rover will be carried to the moon as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program and will primarily take images of the moon's surface for geographic study. The mission is scheduled to launch on May 4, 2022, and will also include an art installation called the MoonArk.