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"1984 Mars Rover" Software Prototype (circa 1978)

12/15/2006
"1984 Mars Rover" Software Prototype (circa 1978)
About the same time as the Viking Mars Mission development, JPL began the "1984 Mars Rover" concept effort. Two testbed vehicles were developed, a software prototype and a hardware prototype. Shown is the former, with a simple chassis holding a PDP-11 computer, Stanford arm, and imaging pan-tilt platform.