footpad

Example Sentences

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Now, off the last rung, onto the saucer-like footpad.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 17, 2019

Harada showed me a few different movements: swinging your feet from side-to-side, swinging your feet in circles, rolling your ankles around on the footpads, pushing each footpad up and down like a seesaw.

From Slate • Dec. 21, 2016

The image of footpad 3 is therefore the first clear image to be taken from the surface of Mars.

From The Guardian • Oct. 19, 2016

Lee explained why the first image showed the footpad: to see how far Viking might sink into the surface.

From Washington Post • Jun. 18, 2016

The picture built up, line by line, until with enormous relief we saw the footpad sitting high and dry above the Martian surface.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan