NASA / JPL - Caltech
PHOTOS OF THE DAY, Part 2... Last week, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) made major progress on the Curiosity Mars Rover when they installed the vehicle’s camera system (a.k.a. the "Remote Sensing Mast", or RSM) and ‘drove’ the rover for the first time. The addition of the RSM, shown above, on July 15 makes Curiosity 3.5 feet (1 meter) taller...while the successful test drive that took place last Friday ensures that the rover’s 6 wheels won’t have to be removed as alluded to in the previous post. Check out this video showing Curiosity taking its first steps...
...and check out these photos of engineers installing the RSM and watching the SUV-size rover take a short stroll across a static-free floor mat inside JPL’s Spacecraft Assembly Facility—where Curiosity and the rest of its Mars Science Laboratory hardware are being assembled and prepped for next year’s launch to the Red Planet.
NASA / JPL - Caltech
NASA / JPL - Caltech
NASA / JPL - Caltech
NASA / JPL - Caltech
NASA / JPL - Caltech
NASA / JPL - Caltech
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