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Engineers and technicians working on NASA's Mars 2020 mission prepare spacecraft components for acoustic testing in the Environmental Test Fac...

This image shows major components of NASA's Mars 2020 mission in the High Bay 1 clean room in JPL's Spacecraft Assembly Facility.

A member of NASA's Mars 2020 project checks connections between the spacecraft's back shell and cruise stage at NASA's Jet propulsion La...

Members of NASA’s Mars 2020 project install the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) into the chassis of NASA&rsq...

Bob Balaram, Teddy Tzanetos and Havard Grip from the NASA Mars Helicopter project discuss the sequence of events for the day&rsquo...

Teddy Tzanetos, MiMi Aung and Bob Balaram of NASA’s Mars Helicopter project observe a flight test.

This image depicts the demonstration vehicle used to prove that controlled, and sustained flight is feasible in a Martian atmosphe...

More than 1,500 individual pieces of carbon fiber, flight-grade aluminum, silicon, copper, foil and foam go into a Mars Helicopter...

Members of NASA’s Mars Helicopter team attach a thermal film enclosure to the fuselage of the flight model (the...

Members of NASA’s Mars Helicopter team prepare the flight model (vehicle going to Mars) for a test in the Space Simulator.<...

Members of the NASA Mars Helicopter team inspect the flight model (the actual vehicle going to the Red Planet), insid...

Members of the NASA Mars Helicopter team attach a thermal film to the exterior of the flight model of the Mars Helicopter. ...

NASA Mars Helicopter team members work the flight model (the vehicle going to Mars) in the Space Simulator.

This image of the flight model of NASA’s Mars Helicopter was taken on Feb. 14, 2019, in a cleanroom at NASA’s Jet Propulsion...

Technicians working Mars 2020’s System’s Test 1 approach their workstation in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA&rsquo...

With the backshell that will help protect the Mars 2020 rover during its descent into the Martian atmosphere visible in the foreground, a tech...

An animated flyover of the Martian surface explains why Mars’ Jezero Crater, a 28-mile-wide ancient lake-delta system, is the best place...

This artist's illustration shows NASA's four successful Mars rovers (from left to right): Sojourner, Spirit and Opportunity, and Curiosity. Th...

NASA Science missions circle Earth, the Sun, the Moon, Mars and many other destinations within our solar system, including spacecraft that loo...

The Mars 2020 spacecraft follows an entry, descent, landing process similar to that used in landing the Mars rover, Curiosity.

This Mars map depicts the final four locations under consideration for the landing site of Mars 2020.

In this image, the second stage of the Black Brant IX sounding rocket separates from the ASPIRE payload. The third and final flight test of th...

This high-definition image was taken on Sept. 7, 2018, during the third and final test flight of the ASPIRE payload. It was the fastest inflat...

JPL mechanical technician Eddie Castro uses a paint meter to measure the paint thickness on the Mars 2020 rover chassis.

This artist concept shows the Mars Helicopter, a small, autonomous rotorcraft, which will travel with NASA's Mars 2020 rover mission, currentl...

The Mars Helicopter, a small, autonomous rotorcraft, will travel with NASA's Mars 2020 rover, currently scheduled to launch in July 2020, to d...

A technician works on the descent stage for NASA’s Mars 2020 mission inside JPL’s Spacecraft Assembly Facility. Mars 2020 is slate...

A slice of a meteorite scientists have determined came from Mars placed inside an oxygen plasma cleaner, which removes organics from the outsi...

Close-up of a slice of a meteorite scientists have determined came from Mars. This slice will likely be used here on Earth for testing a laser...

Rohit Bhartia of NASA's Mars 2020 mission holds a slice of a meteorite scientists have determined came from Mars. This slice will likely be us...

This artist's concept depicts NASA's Mars 2020 rover exploring Mars.

NASA's Mars 2020 rover looks at the horizon in this artist's concept.

This artist's rendition depicts NASA's Mars 2020 rover studying its surroundings.

This artist's concept shows a close-up of NASA's Mars 2020 rover studying an outcrop.

This artist's concept depicts NASA's Mars 2020 rover exploring Mars.

This artist's rendition depicts NASA's Mars 2020 rover studying rocks with its robotic arm.

This artist's rendition depicts NASA's Mars 2020 rover studying a Mars rock outrcrop.

A 58-foot-tall Black Brant IX sounding rocket launches from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Oct. 4. This was the first test of the Mars 2020...

This image shows a 3-D printed model of Mastcam-Z, one of the science cameras on NASA's Mars 2020 rover. Mastcam-Z will include a 3:1 zoom lens.

This image shows one of the enhanced engineering cameras with a prototype lens for the Hazcams, which will watch for obstacles encountered by ...

This image presents a selection of the 23 cameras on NASA's 2020 Mars rover. Many are improved versions of the cameras on the Curiosity rover,...

This is the top-down view into a sample tube is the type of image CacheCam provides to the Mars 2020 team.

The left view is a sample view of a pile of rocks taken in the "Mars Yard" testing area at JPL. The right picture illustrates one way ...

This artist concept features NASA's Mars 2020 rover on the surface of Mars.

This artist's rendering depicts NASA's Mars 2020 rover, with its robotic arm extended.

A prototype of the Lander Vision System for NASA's Mars 2020 mission was tested in this Dec. 9, 2014, flight of a Masten Space Systems "Xo...

This artist concept shows the location of the RIMFAX instrument on the next rover scheduled to launch for Mars.

The Range Trigger technique shrinks the Mars 2020 rovers landing ellipse significantly, landing the rover closer to the target area of greates...

The MOXIE investigation on NASA's Mars 2020 rover will extract oxygen from the Martian atmosphere. In this image, MOXIE Principal Investigator...

This 2016 image comes from computer-assisted-design work on NASA's 2020 Mars rover. The design leverages many successful features of NASA's Cu...