Test Setup for Effort to Free Spirit

With a slope of about 10 degrees and a pointy rock under the test rover belly, this sandbox setup at NASA JPL, is ready for engineers to use the test rover to assess possible moves for getting Mars rover Spirit out of a patch of loose Martian soil.

With a slope of about 10 degrees and a pointy rock under the test rover belly, this sandbox setup at NASA JPL, is ready for engineers to use the test rover to assess possible moves for getting Mars rover Spirit out of a patch of loose Martian soil.