Field Integrated Design and Operations (FIDO) rover is a prototype of the Mars Sample Return rovers that will carry the integrated Athena Science Payload to Mars in 2003 and 2005. The purpose of FIDO is to simulate, using Mars analog settings, the complex surface operations that will be necessary to find, characterize, obtain, cache, and return samples to the ascent vehicles on the landers. This videotape shows tests of the FIDO in the Mojave Desert. These tests include drilling through rock and movement of the rover. Also included in this tape are interviews with Dr Raymond Arvidson, the test director for FIDO, and Dr. Eric Baumgartner, Robotics Engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.


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    Title :

    FIDO - Video File


    Publication date :

    1999-04-27


    Type of media :

    Audio-visual


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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