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A robotic wheeled vehicle that contains science instruments is used to study the geology of Mars. The rover weighs 408 lb on Earth.

(a) In the USCS dimensions of slugs and lbm, what is the rover's mass?

(b) What is the weight of the rover as it rolls off the lander's platform (the lander is the protective shell that houses the rover during landing)? The gravitational acceleration on the surface of Mars is 12.3 ft/s2.