Curiosity ready to roll on Mars: pictures
Times LIVE | 26 July, 2012 13:13
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Photograph by: DANNY MOLOSHOK
A Rover crossing sign is seen outside of a sandy, Mars-like environment named the Mars Yard where engineering models of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover are tested at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
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Photograph by: DANNY MOLOSHOK
Daniel Fuller, test engineer for mobility sets up rocks as obstacles for an auto navigation run of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover engineering model (rear L) in a sandy, Mars-like environment named the Mars Yard at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
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Photograph by: DANNY MOLOSHOK
Riley Avron, Purdue University electrical engineering student and summer intern working with the Mars Science Laboratory mission, poses with an Apple iPhone which has an app he created to locally control the Scarecrow Mars Rover (rear), in a sandy, Mars-like environment named the Mars Yard at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
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Photograph by: DANNY MOLOSHOK
A drill in the center of a turret is seen on an engineering model of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover in seen in a sandy, Mars-like environment named the Mars Yard at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
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Photograph by: DANNY MOLOSHOK
Three of six 20 inch aluminum wheels are seen on an engineering model of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover as it navigates a sandy, Mars-like environment named the Mars Yard at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
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Photograph by: DANNY MOLOSHOK
A high gain antenna is seen atop an engineering model of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover as it navigates a sandy, Mars-like environment named the Mars Yard at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
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Photograph by: DANNY MOLOSHOK
An engineering model of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is seen from the rear in a sandy, Mars-like environment named the Mars Yard at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
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Photograph by: DANNY MOLOSHOK
Guidance, Navigation, and Control Systems Manager and Deputy Surface Phase Lead Steve Lee points to the remote sensing mast which includes navigation cameras and a ChemCam laser on an engineering model of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover in a sandy, Mars-like environment named the Mars Yard at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
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Photograph by: DANNY MOLOSHOK
Lead Rover Driver and Mobility Systems Engineer Matt Heverly uses an Apple iPhone app to control the Scarecrow Mars Rover (rear), which is an engineering model of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover created with less weight than the actual model to compensate for the difference in Mars' gravitational pull, in a sandy, Mars-like environment named the Mars Yard at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
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Photograph by: NASA/REUTERS
Nasa's Mars Odyssey spacecraft passes above Mars' south pole in this artist's concept illustration. The spacecraft has been orbiting Mars since October 24 2001, and has adjusted its orbital location to provide prompt confirmation of the landing of the Curiosity rover next month.
As the Curiosity Mars Rover prepares to land on the red planet, Nasa is showing off the engineering model the rover is based on, The Scarecrow.
