PIA16147: Flexing Curiosity's Arm
This engineering drawing shows the arm on NASA's Curiosity's rover in its 'ready-for-action' position, or 'ready out' as engineers say, in addition to the position it assumes to drop off samples.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Mission:  Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) 
 Spacecraft:  Curiosity
 Product Size:  1427 x 578 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA16147.tif (2.476 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA16147.jpg (116.9 kB)  

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This engineering drawing shows the arm on NASA's Curiosity's rover in its "ready-for-action" position, or "ready out" as engineers say, in addition to the position it assumes to drop off samples.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2012-09-06