The baseball-sized robot will la

Japan plans to deploy a baseball-sized rover to explore the moon's surface in 2022.The Japanese company ispace will deliver the small rover to the moon for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) using the commercial HAKUTO-R lander. JAXA will use the rover to snap pictures of the moon and collect data on lunar dust — a corrosive substance known to be tough on people and machines, the space agency said.The baseball-sized robot will launch with ispace in 2022