Sunday, August 22, 2010

Engineers install a robotic arm onto the CURIOSITY Mars Rover at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
NASA / JPL - Caltech

CURIOSITY GETS AN ARM... Almost two months since it received its 6 wheels and about one month after it received its camera system, the Mars Science Laboratory rover finally had its robotic arm installed onto it at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California last week. Click here to view a video showing the new limb being attached to NASA’s next Red Planet ground vehicle. The last major component to be installed onto Curiosity is its nuclear-powered generator (a.k.a. Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator)...but that won’t take place till days before its launch in November of next year. That is all.

Engineers prepare a robotic arm for installation onto the CURIOSITY Mars Rover at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
NASA / JPL - Caltech

Engineers are about to install a robotic arm onto the CURIOSITY Mars Rover at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
NASA / JPL - Caltech

Engineers install a robotic arm onto the CURIOSITY Mars Rover at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
NASA / JPL - Caltech

Engineers install a robotic arm onto the CURIOSITY Mars Rover at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
NASA / JPL - Caltech
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