• By Annalee Newitz
    Oct 22, 2008 7:00 AM 1,323
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    Naked Martian Robot

    It's the Phoenix Lander the way you've never seen it before, with all its private parts showing. This image by a NASA artist shows what Phoenix looked like before it opened up and unfurled all its lab equipment and other tools. Every single piece of equipment that Phoenix brought had to be packed into a very tight space, and you can see how elegantly the robot was engineered in order to accomplish this. Click the image to see full-frontal Mars bot. [via NASA] Thanks, Chris!


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