COLLECTION NAME:
NASA Solarsystem Collection
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title:
Spirit Reaches Out
description:
This animation, composed of four images taken by the front hazard-identification camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, shows the rover stretching out its robotic arm, or instrument deployment device. This is the first use of the arm on Mars to deploy the microscopic imager, one of four geological instruments located on the arm. The first frame shows a clear view of the martian surface in front of the rover before the arm was successfully deployed early Friday morning. The subsequent frames show the arm emerging from its stowed position beneath the "front porch" of the rover body, reaching out, and using the microscopic imager to take close-up images of the martian soil. *Image Credit*: NASA/JPL/US Geological Survey
date:
01.16.2004
keywords:
JPL
facet_what:
Hazard-identification Camera
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
facet_when:
01-16-2004
facet_when_year:
2004
UID:
SPD-SLRSY-1003
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