Lowering SAM instrument into Curiosity Mars rover

Lowering SAM instrument into Curiosity Mars rover
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The SAM instrument package includes more than 600 meters of wiring, 52 microvalves, and a pump that rotates 100,000 times per minute, NASA says.

Here, technicians lower SAM into Curiosity at JPL.

April 6, 2011 4:00 AM PDT

Photo by: NASA/JPL-Caltech

| Caption by: James Martin

 

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