Amazing Tech: NASA Engineers Fix Rover Opportunity's Arm
This 360-degree panorama is one of the first images beamed back
to Earth from the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shortly after
it touched down at Meridiani Planum, Mars.
The image was captured by the rover's navigation camera.
Image source: NASA / JPL-Caltech
to Earth from the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shortly after
it touched down at Meridiani Planum, Mars.
The image was captured by the rover's navigation camera.
Image source: NASA / JPL-Caltech
An AP newswire article, via ABC News, reports that:
Two weeks after rover Opportunity's robotic arm failed to extend, engineers traced the problem to a stalled motor and fixed it.
The mishap happened on Nov. 25 when Opportunity tried to unstow its arm to examine a layered outcrop in the Martian plains. But the arm, which carries four tools to chip at rocks and soil, failed to deploy because of a jammed shoulder-joint motor.
Engineers zapped current to the motor and it finally moved this week, Jim Erickson, project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, said Tuesday.
posted by Fergie @ 12/13/2005 07:23:00 PM
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