[动画] Spirit Flexes Its Arm to Use Microscope on Mars’ Soil

16-Jan-2004
Spirit Flexes Its Arm to Use Microscope on Mars' Soil  

Spirit Reaches for Closer Look

This animation, composed of four images taken by the front hazard-identification camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, shows the rover stretching out its robotic arm, or instrument deployment device. This is the first use of the arm on Mars to deploy the microscopic imager, one of four geological instruments located on the arm. The first frame shows a clear view of the martian surface in front of the rover before the arm was successfully deployed early Friday morning. The subsequent frames show the arm emerging from its stowed position beneath the "front porch" of the rover body, reaching out, and using the microscopic imager to take close-up images of the martian soil.

Image credit: NASA/JPL/US Geological Survey

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This animation strings together five different snapshots of the martian soil captured by the microscopic imager onboard the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. Each picture was taken from a different height. Scientists combine these images to produce one well-focused picture. The actual size of the soil patch shown here is 3 centimeters (1.2 inches) across.

Image credit: NASA/JPL/US Geological Survey

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很精彩呀！！！
第二张是什么意思呀？

那是勇气号拍摄的火星土壤照片动画。。

我没敢回答 玄天凌龙 同好的提问，怕解释错了，俺不懂天文地理专业词汇，只懂一点点计算机专业方面的，害怕出错呀，所以宁可不说~干着急呀~~~

多谢啦~~

可能是机械臂上的摄像机拍摄的