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Big Wheels Cross The Finish Line...for Now!

This image shows engineer Sean Haggert. Wearing a white lab coat, gloves, face mask, and hair covering to protect spacecraft parts from contamination, engineer Sean Haggert places his hands on either edge of one of the black, cleated wheels of the Mars Science Laboratory rover.

February 20, 2009

This image shows engineer Sean Haggert. Wearing a white lab coat, gloves, face mask, and hair covering to protect spacecraft parts from contamination, engineer Sean Haggert places his hands on either edge of one of the black, cleated wheels of the Mars Science Laboratory rover.

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