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> Few people realize how big the Curiosity and Perseverance rovers are To be fair, Perseverance looks as big as I imagined it would be, about the size of an SU
by egeozcan 5y ago
> Few people realize how big the Curiosity and Perseverance rovers are
To be fair, Perseverance looks as big as I imagined it would be, about the size of an SUV but wider (because even in 2020s, they still don't have streets in mars, what a bummer): https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/science/mars-2020-rover-name.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/science/mars-2020-rover-n...
Or did my googling fail me? :)
edit: direct image link around paywall: https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/18/science/18mars2020rover03/18mars2020rover03-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/18/science/18mars202...
- ravi-delia 5y agoMy mental image until I looked it up was around the size of a dog. No, I don't know why
- jpindar 5y agoThe older ones were smaller. https://earthlymission.com/size-comparison-generations-mars-rovers-curiosity-sojourner-perseverance-opportunity-nasa/ https://earthlymission.com/size-comparison-generations-mars-...
- Sharlin 5y agoBut even Spirit and Oppy were… well, I guess they're roughly the size of a very large dog. At 185 kg, much heavier than even the largest dogs though.
- Angostura 5y agoBecause it's called rover? :)
- aitchnyu 5y agoStupid me thought its go kart sized like the one Howard Wolowitz in The Big Bang Theory brought to a baseball stadium.
- etskinner 5y agohttps://archive.is/tpcRK https://archive.is/tpcRK for the article
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