The front pose of the rover.
The rover in the perspective pose.
Rover Power Supply | MMRTG
The MMRTG design incorporates PbTe/TAGS thermoelectric couples from Teledyne Energy Systems. The MMRTG is designed to produce 125 W electrical power at the start of mission, falling to about 100 W after 14 years. With a mass of 45 kg the MMRTG provides about 2.8 W/kg of electrical power at beginning of life.
The MMRTG design is capable of operating both in the vacuum of space and in planetary atmospheres, such as on the surface of Mars. Design goals for the MMRTG included ensuring a high degree of safety, optimizing power levels over a minimum lifetime of 14 years, and minimizing weight.
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Mars Curiosity Rover
This Mars Curiosity Rover was built 100% from photo-reference for an ad campaign for Futek, the company that made the servos and sensors aboard the rover. Seems the boys over at NASA would need over two weeks to give me the 3d files to build the rover, and I had only eight days to build a densely detailed model and deliver two images. This makes for a time consuming build, but you take what you have and build what you can. From many of the actual rover photos that were mostly shot with a wide angle lens and from a perspective, I sketched elevations from each of the 'high character' components. From my elevation sketches, I modeled directly on top of them, giving me a reasonably accurate model.
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