Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Mars rovers

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

• Support as nominator --Tomer T (talk) 08:54, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
• Support. A unique image showing the size and shape of the three NASA rovers in relation to each other and a human for scale. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 09:50, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
• Support. This is a very nice photo that puts the evolution of the rovers into prospective. I do have one question, is there a reason why we left out, Matthew Robinson and Wesley Kuykendall, the names of the two JPL engineers? --CyberXRef^☎ 11:29, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
  • Names added. Tomer T (talk) 12:49, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
• Support. Useful excellent quality image. --Carioca (talk) 18:46, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
• Support ///EuroCarGT 02:05, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
• Support. High EV. —Bruce1ee^talk 05:01, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
• Support -- I am with Ðiliff. -- Alborzagros (talk) 13:44, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
• Support - Brilliant, educational, and historically important. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 04:07, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

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