Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Mars rovers

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Original – Matthew Robinson and Wesley Kuykendall, Two Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineers, stand with three vehicles, providing a size comparison of three generations of Mars rovers. Front and center is the flight spare for the first Mars rover, Sojourner, which landed on Mars in 1997 as part of the Mars Pathfinder Project. On the left is a Mars Exploration Rover (MER) test vehicle that is a working sibling to Spirit and Opportunity, which landed on Mars in 2004. On the right is a test rover for the Mars Science Laboratory, which landed Curiosity on Mars in 2012. Sojourner is 65 cm (2.13 ft) long. The Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) are 1.6 m (5.2 ft) long. Curiosity on the right is 3 m (9.8 ft) long.
Reason
Good quality and very high EV. Commons FP. Text taken from Curiosity (rover).
Articles in which this image appears
Rover (space exploration), Mars rover, Curiosity (rover)
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Understanding
Creator
NASA

Promoted File:PIA15279 3rovers-stand D2011 1215 D521.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 08:55, 25 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]