Payloads the size of a bar of soap for moon exploration

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Now there's an idea or two:

NASA Wants Your Mini Moon Payload Designs and They’re Offering Cash Prizes

A new JPL-led challenge is seeking ideas for scientific instruments that could fit inside a tiny payload no bigger than a bar of soap. Future exploration of the Moon and beyond will require tools of all shapes and sizes - from sweeping orbiters to the tiniest of rovers. In addition to current pla

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One could put in a quantum communications experiment, hooked up to a simple sensor such as a basic background radiation monitor.