Preparing to Test Rover Mobility
Caption:
Rover engineers prepare a mixture of sandy and powdery materials to simulate some difficult Mars driving conditions inside a facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. The tests in early May 2005 were designed to help plan the best way for the rover Opportunity to drive off of a soft-sand dune that the rover dug itself into the previous week.
Cataloging Keywords:
Name |
Value |
Additional Values |
Target |
Mars |
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System |
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Target Type |
Planet |
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Mission |
Mars Exploration Rover (MER) |
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Instrument Host |
Opportunity (MER-B) |
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Host Type |
Rover |
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Instrument |
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Detector |
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Extra Keywords |
Color, Dune |
Acquisition Date |
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Release Date |
2005-05-05 |
Date in Caption |
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Image Credit |
NASA/JPL |
Source |
photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07894 |
Identifier |
PIA07894 |