Curiosity's Work Bench
This engineering drawing shows various components needed to support tools at the end of the arm on NASA's Curiosity rover, including: calibration targets for helping instruments set their baseline levels; spare bits for the rover's drill; a sample "playground" that gives the rover a place to drop off processed samples for observation by the APXS and MAHLI instruments; three inlet covers, which protect the SAM and CheMin instruments from atmospheric dust; and a set of five "organic check material" canisters, which provide a known chemical makeup blank that can be drilled and provided to SAM as a calibration material.
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Image details
ID#:
PIA16146
Date added:
2012-09-06
Target:
Mars
Mission:
Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Spacecraft:
Curiosity
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Image credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech
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