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NASA eClips™: Lunar Excavation Blade
Target: Grades 6-8

Length: 5 minutes 3 seconds

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Learn how NASA engineers use mass efficiency, a measure of size to productivity, to evaluate the excavation blade that could be used on future lunar missions. The blade can help astronauts build landing pads or protective berms.