Visitors to the Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum (VITM), Bengaluru will get to see a full scale replica of NASA’s Mars Rover Opportunity which is on exhibit at the museum’s Space Technology Gallery.
The full scale replica of Mars Rover Opportunity, which was received from the US Consulate General in Chennai, was inaugurated on Thursday by M. Sankaran, director, UR Rao Satellite Centre.
VITM said the Mars Rover Opportunity model, which was built by students of Cornell University in the US, was initially on display at the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum in Dulles, Virginia and later exhibited in the US Pavilion during the 2020 World Expo in Dubai.
