Curiosity Wheel During Descent
This color thumbnail image was obtained by NASA Curiosity rover illustrating the first appearance of the left front wheel of the Curiosity rover after deployment of the suspension system as the vehicle was about to touch down on Mars.
- Date
- 2012-08-07
- Photographer / author
- NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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"Curiosity Wheel During Descent" (2012-08-07). NASA/JPL/NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA15992Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 23818.
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