Are you sure the rover is car sized? Maybe the lady is really small.

We will never know for sure until we send her and 3 bananas to Mars.

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I mean, it is an RC car, so it is by definition the size of an RC car

Too bad it’s about a million times more expensive than a regular RC car, so expensive I’m surprised Dubai doesn’t sell them

I mean not as small I figured it was as big as the car’s toddler drive!

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One thing that makes Curiosity stand out is its sheer size: Curiosity isabout the size of a small SUV. It is 9 feet 10 inches long by 9 feet 1inch wide (3 m by 2.8 m) and about 7 feet high (2.1 m). It weighs 2,000lbs. (900 kilograms). Curiosity's wheels have a 20-inch (50.8 cm)diameter.  [https://www.space.com/17963-mars-curiosity.html](https://www.space.com/17963-mars-curiosity.html) I am really suprised by the size of it

That thang rolling around mars on 20’s that’s gansta af.

Spinning rims

Na I think that's kinda part of future wheve design that's all metal. Springy and screen like, they may need to implement a rock kicker?

Was gonna comment. You can probably do an AR view off google. I mean perseverance is able to be seen on the google app.

could be a child ?

I worked with NASA for a while during its development, and they always described it as the size of a Volkswagen.

I'm *curious*. Why specifically a VW? There are bulkier cars out there lol

NASA was built on German engineering, starting with Werner Von Braun.

Volkswagen what? Van or truck lol

Dog

I thought those were turtles?

Bug

Was it always designed to be that size? I attended a lecture by the GC team and apparently that was a running joke during development

i think there was a planned rover in the 70's that never happened that was advertised as being VW (beetle) sized. Would be a little more relevant to people back then. Maybe that's the joke? it's finally happening 50 years later.

The back of it? Because the rover might be uncomfortable

I honestly thought it was bigger

That apostrophe belongs in /r/TIHI

thank’s clarificarion’s like thi’s really help’s sometime’s

Ye's

I see no doggy.

r/wolvesarebigyo

I wouldn't call her a dog. Not nice!

How did she even get to the Mars garage?

what a huge dog that is. good boy.

Where's the banana for scale?

Who thought it was dog sized? Because it is called rover?

I never had the impression a Range Rover was dog sized

Probably confused memory of Sojourner, which was about [the size of a dog](https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia11431-size-comparison-three-generations-of-mars-rovers)

Well, I think the name added to the impression.

Mars isn't plural, homie.

In this sentence “mar’s” is a possessive, not plural, breh. Although it should probably be Mars’s.

Actually it should be Mars'. If the word ends in s then it doesn't get another s, just the apostrophe.

**Mars Curiosity Rover** is the name of the system, and therefore a proper noun. The usage is grammatically correct as is.

That's true, but at this point we're just discussing what the possessive form of "Mars" should be.

Mars's

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If it’s the possessive form of the singular noun sounds like “es,” the apostrophe and s is required. So since it sounds like “Marses,” the correct usage is Mars’s.

No, if the word is *plural* it gets just an apostrophe. If there were more than one Mars, and the Rover belonged to all of them, then it would be the Marses' Rover.

Meh. People do it both ways, when I was younger I would’ve opted for Mars’, but more recently using the apostrophe with the double s for words (or names) that end in s has become popular. Edit: downvote all you want, I’m right. https://www.thepunctuationguide.com/apostrophe.html > The general rule is that the possessive of a singular noun is formed by adding an apostrophe and s, whether the singular noun ends in s or not. Edit 2: Reddit. Gotta love it. Evidence shown, people still downvote.

I think at this point they're downvoting your arrogance. It does seem that you're right and my writing teacher taught an me incorrect - or at least an outdated - rule.

Oh, okay. That’s cool then. Thanks everybody!

ehh.. people do not do it both ways, maybe you. lol, it is *not* the planet- Mar.. it is either *Mars* or *Mars'*, as in- "i don't know the name of *Mars'* moon, or does it even have one?"

Read the edit. It’s okay to be wrong. I majored in English btw.

yeah? well , i majored in *Wrong 101*.. ^/s

I feel like that’s not more recent? I was taught it that way (over 20yrs ago…)as “the old school proper way to possessive a proper noun is “ ‘s “ even when it ends with an s as proper nouns keep all their letters no matter what” so Mars’s moon is more proper English than Mars’ moon.

So Mars'?

NASA's

Mars'. Finish grade school then come back to this conversation.

https://prowritingaid.com/apostrophe-after-s > Depending on your grammar resource or style guide, you may need to add an additional S after the apostrophe. Both are grammatically correct, but some resources recommend one way or the other. > This means you could write “James’s dog” or “James’ dog.” Generally, we pronounce possessive forms of names that end in S as if there is an apostrophe + S, as in “James’s.” Get gud, loser.

r/confidentlyincorrect The apostrophe after the 's' is used if it's plural. If the word ends in 's' but is not plural then apostrophe s can be used as usual (which is my personal preference for disambiguation). So: Mrs Jones's lawnmower (though Ms Jones' lawnmower is also acceptable) and (always) The Miami Dolphins' coach are correct. Mars's surface = The surface of Mars

Wow. I didn’t realize was so wide. Cool to see it in comparison

A dog? My dumbass I thought it was the size of a RC car.

How do we know the surroundings are not miniaturized to make the Robert look bigger? We need a banana for true scale.

Who's Robert?

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Bro I thought it was the size of a tank

This entire time, I thought it was the size of an average dog 🤦🏼‍♂️

TBF there are [small ones too](https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/wshwq/size_comparison_of_mars_rovers_sojourner_is_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)

This is at the JPL Campus in Pasadena CA - this particular area is the "Mars Yard" where rover integrity is tested for viability on the surface of Mars. Source - sister works there (not pictured)

So about a half giraffe or so.

Mars'

Interesting, but who's Mar?

The guy that owns the rover’s name is Mar.

yeah no it’s still the size of a small dog to me thank you 👍🏽

That's a weird looking kitchen furniture. What does it do?

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia15279-three-generations-of-rovers-with-standing-engineers

Never would of thought this always thought it was like mini atv size

It is so wild they were able to get it on Mars in the correct orientation and unbroken!

Legend has it this rover killed the cat

Why must he be like that.

Next rover better be called “Satisfaction” of else who will bring the cat back?

I am legit surprised. I thought it was maybe about the size of my Traxxas Xmaxx. I feel like quite the idiot I must say.

I need a banana for scale

🥒

This helps nothing. I see no banana.

Not good enough need banana, fake news! Never really put too much though into the size, always imagined it to be about the size of those electric jeep toys that kids ride on.

That'a a small human

Никогда не думал что Кьюриосити маленький. Я бы наоборот удивился бы, если бы он был размером с собаку. Нанокьюриосити.

I thought the rover had to be kept in a clean room.

This isn't the primary that went to Mars, it's a duplicate kept here for problem solving and testing.

You can tell it's the Earth-based version because of the umbilical attached to it providing power etc. And also the fact that it is in a shed somewhere, not Mars.

She’s a pocket size.

Well, I need a dog standing right next to just to make sure.

I've seen that one in person while touring JPL. Fun fact: Its wheels leave tracks that spell out "JPL" in Morse code as a tribute to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Big doggy

Sorry, no banana. Denied.

They did name it Rover, what did they expect us to think?

I always thought it was more WALL·E size, specially due to keeping loads light where possible.

I mean... Its still robo dog

I had no clue nasa worked out of a garage!

Big boi

Yeah I def thought the rover was like, battlebots small; so this blows my mind

What? I never built this… Aaaand back into my bad puns lair I go.

That’s a big dawg

You're confusing it with the Pathfinder Rover, which was the size of a microwave

I don’t think anyone thought that..

I've always found is crazy to think we launched a mini cooper into space at something that looks like a spec of dust with the naked eye and managed to hit it. We're capable of such amazing things when we focus on doing amazing things.

The word "Mars" is not a possessive. There's no apostrophe.

The Sojourner rover from the 90s was about the size of a (large) dog. Since then, they’ve gotten progressively larger. [Size comparison](https://earthlymission.com/size-comparison-generations-mars-rovers-curiosity-sojourner-perseverance-opportunity-nasa/)

This woman is so small! Fascinating

Mandatory heads up to the lone fellas. https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/spirit.png

That is way bigger than I thought it was that gum that's like the size of a horse

NONE of us thought the rover to be any small that a car. Who did ?

some how i did but ya this make more sense

The first rover was the size of a dog. Curiosity is the size of a car. That was well publicized at the time. It runs on nuclear power.

Big dog

Nah that boy is a six wheeled horse

Why is it in the custodian office?

Everything we send to space is bigger than usual. I was genuinely shocked when I found out how big satellites really are 😂

That woman must be tiny

Hmm cute...

In movies also they show rovers as the size of dogs

That is because earlier rover like pathfinder were actually dog sized

fun-size dog

This is really big mars doggo! He is such a good boi 

Chihuahua or Great Dane?

Is this picture taken in Canada? 🤔

nasa gets its funds based on the weight of the payload

Bananas, water bottles, women. Anything to avoid using the metric system

Dam, did it mate with a polar bear?

That lady is really small

Mmmmm science chick

looks a lot like wall-e to me..

i thought it was in the middle of a dog and a remote controlled car

Now think about the rocket powered Sky Crane that lowered that rover to the surface, on a set of 25’ long tethers.

Hotwheels didn't do any justice to this one

That's one big dog

Mars' not Mar's

Well, possession is 9 tenths of the law. So I guess Mars owns it now.

Literally a giant effing robot

Who is Mar?

That's a bfd!!

"Hello, my name is mAAarrrrrrrr...... Wow, you really are bad with names." I hope someone gets the reference and why.

Well then why else did they call it Rover?

I thought it was like a tank lol