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PIA04830: Closed Aeroshell
Closed Aeroshell
Target Name: Mars
Mission: Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Product Size: 3000 samples x 1955 lines
Produced By: JPL
Addition Date: 2003-10-30
Full-Res TIFF: PIA04830.tif (17.6 MB)
Full-Res JPEG: PIA04830.jpg (827.2 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:
January 31, 2003

Suspended by an overhead crane in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) aeroshell is guided by workers as it moves to a rotation stand. Set to launch in 2003, the MER Mission will consist of two identical rovers designed to cover roughly 110 yards (100 meters) each Martian day. Each rover will carry five scientific instruments that will allow it to search for evidence of liquid water that may have been present in the planet's past. The rovers will be identical to each other, but will land at different regions of Mars. The first rover has a launch window opening May 30, and the second rover a window opening June 25, 2003.

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