Mars rover being tested near the Paranal Observatory
A rover named Bridget (provided by Astrium, Stevenage in the UK) is being tested in the Atacama Desert close to ESO's Paranal Observatory. Bridget is part of the SAFER field trials — Sample Acquisition Field Experiment with a Rover. ESA's 2018 ExoMars mission is acting as the reference mission for the trial. In this picture ESO engineers at Paranal are displaying a little "curiosity" towards Bridget.
Credit:ESO/G. Hüdepohl (atacamaphoto.com)
About the Image
| Id: | ann13085d |
| Type: | Photographic |
| Release date: | 14 October 2013, 17:00 |
| Related announcements: | ann13085 |
| Size: | 7360 x 4912 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Atacama Desert, Paranal |
| Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory |
| Category: | Paranal |
