OPTIMISM in JPL’s Mars Yard

November 4, 2021
CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech
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While NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover makes groundbreaking achievements on the Red Planet, its twin is hard at work in JPL’s Mars Yard. The Operational Perseverance Twin for the Integration of Mechanisms and Instruments Sent to Mars, or OPTIMISM, is the Mars 2020 Vehicle System Testbed (VSTB) rover.