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00:04mankind is set to start exploring the moon again very soon but we're likely going to be doing it
00:08a lot differently than last time and this little robot designed by Japanese toy company Tomy in
00:13association with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency might help they're calling it SoraQ and
00:19it's quite a strange device the whole thing looks like the head of a robot but in fact it transforms
00:24with this head containing the entire automaton so our Q's main mission scurry around the lunar
00:29surface and take photos then transmit them back to earth a momentous task for something only as
00:34big as a child's toy in fact it's only around the size of a baseball weighing in at only nine
00:39ounces
00:39it's built with specially made aluminum and plastic which are both meant to withstand the harsh conditions
00:44of the moon specifically its massive temperature differentials which range from a freezing minus
00:49two hundred and seventy four degrees Fahrenheit to a scorching two hundred and thirty
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