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Tech/Engineering - Astronomy & Space | | German term or phrase: Instrumententraeger | In a text on Mars
" Amerikanische, sowjetische und europaeische Forscher haben zahlreiche Instrumententraeger zum Mars geschickt...."
Does it mean spaceships/space probes? |
|  Bhavna BajajKudoZ activityQuestions: 32 (none open) ( 2 closed without grading) Answers: 20
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| | instrument platforms | Explanation:
or payload platforms, if you are talking about satellites.
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Note added at 5 mins (2010-01-26 16:47:14 GMT)
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And it can mean satellites or even the stationary landers, rovers, all those things, I should think.
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Note added at 27 mins (2010-01-26 17:09:16 GMT)
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Here is NASA calling it a "rover platform":
http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/m/pub/archive/0417.pdf
And another with an orbiter:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/slidesets/winds/ |
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Local time: 18:58
| Grading comment Thanks for your help! I finally went ahead with "rover platform"
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