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PIA07894: Preparing to Test Rover Mobility
Mission: Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Spacecraft: Mars Exploration Rover 1
Product Size: 3008 samples x 2000 lines
Produced By: JPL
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Rover engineers prepare a mixture of sandy and powdery materials to simulate some difficult Mars driving conditions inside a facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. The tests in early May 2005 were designed to help plan the best way for the rover Opportunity to drive off of a soft-sand dune that the rover dug itself into the previous week.


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