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Mars Helicopter Base Station on Perseverance Rover
The Mars Helicopter Base Station, seen here as the upper, gold-colored box near the back of NASA’s Perseverance rover, stores and routes communications between NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter and mission controllers on Earth.
January 20, 2021
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Perseverance Rover Landing Ellipse in Jezero Crater
The white circle near the center of this image of Mars represents the location where NASA’s Perseverance rover is expected to land on Feb. 18, 2021.
January 5, 2021
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Zeroing in on the Target
The target landing area of NASA’s Perseverance rover is overlaid on this image of its landing site on Mars, Jezero Crater. The larger landing ellipses of several other Mars missions are shown for comparison.
January 5, 2021
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Perseverance Rover's Entry, Descent and Landing Profile
This illustration shows the events that occur in the final minutes of the nearly seven-month journey that NASA’s Perseverance rover takes to Mars.
January 5, 2021
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Anatomy of a Sample Tube Interior
This illustration depicts the interior of a sample tube being carried aboard the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover.
December 22, 2020
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Anatomy of a Sample Tube
This illustration depicts the exterior of a sample tube being carried aboard the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover.
December 22, 2020
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Sampling Mars 2020 Sample Tube 241
A technician working on the Mars 2020 mission takes a sample from the surface of sample tube 241 – to test for contamination. The image was taken in a clean room facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where the tubes were developed and assembled.
December 22, 2020
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Armstrong and Rock Box
Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong works with an Apollo Lunar Sample Return Container during a lunar surface simulation training exercise in Building 9, Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas.
December 22, 2020
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Installing Perseverance's Sample Tubes
A tray holding 39 sample tubes – each protected in a gold-colored sheath – is installed in NASA's Perseverance rover in this picture taken at the agency's Kennedy Space Center on May 21, 2020.
December 22, 2020
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CT Scan of Mars Sample Tube
This animation shows the data collected on a Mars 2020 sample tube using a computerized tomography (CT) scanner. Engineers working on the sample tubes used the 3D imagery to better understand the tubes' internal structure.
December 22, 2020
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Mars Perseverance Rover (Gradient Illustration)
An illustration of the planet Mars, highlighting NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover mission.
December 18, 2020
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Mars Perseverance Rover Mission (Humans and Robots Illustration)
An illustration of the planet Mars, highlighting NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover and future human explorers.
December 18, 2020
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Perseverance Rover on Mars (Gradient Illustration)
This illustration shows NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover on the surface of the Red Planet.
December 18, 2020
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Perseverance Rover Touchdown (Gradient Illustration)
An illustration of NASA’s Perseverance rover landing on Mars. Hundreds of critical events must execute perfectly and exactly on time for the rover to land safely on Feb. 18, 2021.
December 18, 2020
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Swoosh Goes the Parachute (Gradient Illustration)
An illustration of NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover deploying its supersonic parachute from its aeroshell as it slows down before landing.
December 18, 2020
