Curiosity's Work Bench,  This engineering drawing shows various components needed to support tools at the end of the arm on NASA's Curiosity rover, including: calibration targets fo...

Curiosity's Work Bench


This engineering drawing shows various components needed to support tools at the end of the arm on NASA's Curiosity rover, including: calibration targets for helping instruments set their baseline levels; spare bits for the rover's drill; a sample "playground" that gives the rover a place to drop off processed samples for observation by the APXS and MAHLI instruments; three inlet covers, which protect the SAM and CheMin instruments from atmospheric dust; and a set of five "organic check material" canisters, which provide a known chemical makeup blank that can be drilled and provided to SAM as a calibration material.

Image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Image released by NASA on 2012-09-06 as catalog id PIA16146
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