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Image: The full-scale engineering model of NASA's Perseverance rover, OPTIMISM Rover

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Description: The full-scale engineering model of NASA's Perseverance rover has put some dirt on its wheels. This vehicle system test bed (VSTB) rover moved into its home — a garage facing the Mars Yard at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California — on Sept. 4, 2020. It drove onto simulated Martian surface of the Mars Yard — a dirt field at JPL studded with rocks and other obstacles — for the first time on Sept. 8. The VSTB rover is also known as OPTIMISM (Operational Perseverance Twin for Integration of Mechanisms and Instruments Sent to Mars).
Title: The full-scale engineering model of NASA's Perseverance rover, OPTIMISM Rover
Credit: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-readies-perseverance-mars-rovers-earthly-twin; see also https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA23966
Author: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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