PIA15089: Stereo (Right) Fish-eye View of NASA's Curiosity Rover and its Powered Descent Vehicle


Stereo (Right) Fish-eye View of NASA’s Curiosity Rover and its Powered Descent Vehicle

Caption:

NASA's Curiosity rover and its powered descent vehicle pose for photographs prior to being integrated for launch at JPL's Spacecraft Assembly Facility. Curiosity, the largest and most robust planetary rover ever built, will be able to navigate over obstacles 25 inches (65 centimeters) in height while exploring Gale Crater on Mars.

Background Info:

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif., manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington.

More information about Curiosity is at http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/ .

Cataloging Keywords:

Name Value Additional Values
Target Mars
System
Target Type Planet
Mission Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Instrument Host Curiosity Rover
Host Type Rover
Instrument
Detector
Extra Keywords Color, Crater
Acquisition Date
Release Date 2011-11-23
Date in Caption
Image Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech
Source photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA15089
Identifier PIA15089