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Mars 2020 Launch Vehicle on Stand
Preparations are underway to lift the United Launch Alliance Atlas V booster for NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover and move it into the Vertical Integration Facility at Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in Florida on May 28, 2020.
June 3, 2020
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Mars 2020 Booster Offload
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V booster for NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover is lifted up in the Vertical Integration Facility at Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in Florida on May 28, 2020.
June 3, 2020
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Mars 2020 Launch Vehicle Lifted Up
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V booster for NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover is lifted up in the Vertical Integration Facility at Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in Florida on May 28, 2020.d
June 3, 2020
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Mars 2020 Booster Disembarks
In this view from inside the Antonov 124 cargo aircraft, the United Launch Alliance booster for NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover is offloaded at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in Florida.
June 3, 2020
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Swabbing Perseverance Sample Tubes
Planetary protection engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California swab engineering models of the the tubes that will store Martian rock and sediment samples as part of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance mission.
June 3, 2020
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Cleaning Mars 2020
Wiping down hardware is part of the strategy to limit the number of Earth microbes going to the Red Planet for NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance mission.
June 3, 2020
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Mars 2020 Booster Arrives at the Cape
The first stage of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V that will carry NASA's Perseverance rover into space is offloaded from an Antonov cargo plane at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
June 3, 2020
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From Colombia to Mars: Diana Trujillo
After moving from Colombia to the U.S.. Diana Trujillo cleaned houses to pave her way through college, paving a path to NASA-JPL as a Mars engineer.
June 2, 2020
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Prepping Perseverance Descent and Entry Components
Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Backshell-Powered Descent Vehicle and Entry Vehicle assemblies are being prepared to be attached to the Mars Perseverance rover on May 4, 2020.
May 26, 2020
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Mineral Map Created During a Test of SHERLOC
In this test image by SHERLOC, an instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance rover, each color represents a different mineral detected on a rock's surface.
May 26, 2020
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Mars 2020's SHERLOC Instrument
An engineering model of SHERLOC, one the instruments onboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. Located on the end of the rover's robotic arm, SHERLOC will help determine which samples to take so that they can be sealed in metal tubes and left on the Martian surface for future return to Earth.
May 26, 2020
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Mars 2020 Rover and Helicopter Lithograph
Download a PDF of the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover and Ingenuity Helicopter Lithograph.
May 22, 2020
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Mars Rocket Arrives by Air
The first stage of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V that will carry NASA's Perseverance rover into space is offloaded from an Antonov cargo plane at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 11, 2020.
May 21, 2020
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NASA Wallops Cargo Plane Helps Mars Mission
This animated GIF shows a NASA Wallops Flight Facility C-130 soon after landing Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 11, 2020. The cargo plane was carrying nearly 5,000 pounds (2,270 kilograms) of mission flight hardware, test gear and equipment for the agency's Mars-bound Perseverance rover mission.
May 21, 2020
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Mars Mission Sound Check
The spacecraft that will carry NASA's Perseverance rover to Mars is examined prior to an acoustic test in the Environmental Test Facility at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. The image was taken on April 11, 2019.
May 18, 2020
