How to Take a Picture of A Robotic Arm
May 28, 2008
This movie first shows an artist’s animation of NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander snapping a picture of its arm, then transitions to the actual picture of the arm in its stowed configuration, with its biobarrier unpeeled.
The arm is still folded up, with its “elbow” shown at upper left and its scoop at bottom right. The biobarrier is the shiny film seen to the left of the arm in this view.
Topics:
Entertainment Culture, Technology Internet, Mars, Spacecraft, Space exploration, Unmanned spacecraft, Phoenix, Mars Scout Program, Mare Boreum quadrangle, animation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, artist