1:1 Scale LEGO Mars Rover visits the Lego Store at the
Paramus Park Mall, New Jersey USA. 3/15/04.

{Mars Rover description, written from an offical sign}

The LEGO Company first unveiled this full scale model
of a Mars Exploration Rover with The Planetary Society
in October 2002 at the World Space Congress.

The rover model weighs 130 kilograms (290 pounds)
and is made from approximately 90,000 LEGO elements.
The rover model took 650 man-hours to build,
and the construction process took about 3 months.

A few details are not perfectly accurate to the final
Mars Exploration Rover design, which was modified as
it was being developed and tested. Overall, though, the
model is the proper size and shape, with all the
instruments, components and structures represented
faithfully and to scale, from the four cameras on the
top of the mast to the magnets in front and the Sundial
in back.

The LEGO Company has sponsored The Planetary Society's
Red Rover Goes to Mars since its inception in 1998.

Photos, by Eric Sophie 2004