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Original – Matthew Robinson and Wesley Kuykendall, Two Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineers, stand with three vehicles, providing a size comparison of three generations of
Mars rovers . Front and center is the flight spare for the first Mars rover,
Sojourner , which landed on Mars in 1997 as part of the Mars Pathfinder Project. On the left is a
Mars Exploration Rover (MER) test vehicle that is a working sibling to
Spirit and
Opportunity , which landed on Mars in 2004. On the right is a test rover for the Mars Science Laboratory, which landed
Curiosity on Mars in 2012. Sojourner is 65 cm (2.13 ft) long. The Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) are 1.6 m (5.2 ft) long. Curiosity on the right is 3 m (9.8 ft) long.
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Good quality and very high EV. Commons FP. Text taken from
Curiosity (rover) .
Articles in which this image appears
Rover (space exploration) ,
Mars rover ,
Curiosity (rover)
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Understanding
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NASA
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Tomer T (
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Support . A unique image showing the size and shape of the three NASA rovers in relation to each other and a human for scale.
Ðiliff «»
(Talk) 09:50, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
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Support . This is a very nice photo that puts the evolution of the rovers into prospective. I do have one question, is there a reason why we left out, Matthew Robinson and Wesley Kuykendall, the names of the two JPL engineers? --
Cy be r XR ef
☎ 11:29, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
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Support . Useful excellent quality image. --
Carioca (
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Support
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GT 02:05, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
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Support . High EV. —
Bruce1ee
talk 05:01, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
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Support -- I am with Ðiliff. --
Alborzagros (
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Support - Brilliant, educational, and historically important. -
The Bushranger
One ping only 04:07, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
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Promoted File:PIA15279 3rovers-stand D2011 1215 D521.jpg --
Armbrust
The Homunculus 08:55, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
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