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>>9704857
>lander
A lander cannot perform the same mission as a rover.
>>“The instruments themselves are only important if they’re on a rover that can drill one or two meters down,” Phil Metzger, a planetary physicist at the University of Central Florida who was part of the science team for Resource Prospector
https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/2/17306874/nasa-canceled-lunar-rover-commercial-mission

The only way we can do the same science as the resource prospector is to have something that moves. Pic related details this. There are constraints on how fucking small something that moves, drills, and bakes in a dark fucking crater can be and private companies currently cannot land something on the Moon with as much mass as the Resource Prospector.