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Mars 2020 Mission Identifier (Vertical)

Mars 2020 Mission Identifier (Vertical)

June 19, 2020

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Planning for NASA's 2020 Mars rover envisions a basic structure that capitalizes on re-using the design and engineering work done for the NASA rover Curiosity, which landed on Mars in 2012, but wit...
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Planning for NASA's 2020 Mars rover envisions a basic structure that capitalizes on re-using the design and engineering work done for the NASA rover Curiosity, which landed on Mars in 2012, but with new science instruments selected through competition for accomplishing different science objectives with the 2020 mission.
Artist's Concept of Mars 2020 Rover, Annotated
The twin Mastcam-Z cameras, shown with a pocket knife for scale, are assembled and ready for testing in this photo taken at Malin Space Science Systems, in San Diego, California.
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Two Mastcam-Z cameras in the lab with a pen knife for scale.
Ready for a Close Up (or a Wide Angle)
An animated flyover of the Martian surface explains why Mars’ Jezero Crater, a 28-mile-wide ancient lake-delta system, is the best place for Mars 2020 to find and collect promising samples for a po...
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An animated flyover of the Martian surface explains why Mars’ Jezero Crater, a 28-mile-wide ancient lake-delta system, is the best place for Mars 2020 to find and collect promising samples for a possible future return to Earth.
Mars 2020 Target: Jezero Crater
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover onboard launches from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Thursday, July 30, 2020, from NAS...
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The rocket with NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover onboard launches from KSC
Mars 2020 Perseverance On its Way
When the NASA Perseverance Mars rover lands on the Red Planet, it will be caching rock samples for a future mission to collect and return to Earth. For Mars 2020 Deputy Project Scientist at NASA-JP...
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When the NASA Perseverance Mars rover lands on the Red Planet, it will be caching rock samples for a future mission to collect and return to Earth.
Seeking Signs of Life in Ancient Martian Rocks
On Dec. 17, 2019, engineers took NASA’s next Mars rover for its first spin.
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First Drive Test of NASA's Mars 2020 Rover
This diagram, superimposed on a photo of Martian landscape, illustrates a concept called "adaptive caching," which is in development for NASA's 2020 Mars rover mission.
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This diagram, superimposed on a photo of Martian landscape, illustrates a concept called "adaptive caching," which is in development for NASA's 2020 Mars rover mission.
Adaptive Caching Concept
The completed spacecraft that will carry the Mars 2020 rover to the Red Planet, next year hangs suspended by cables inside the Space Simulator Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasade...
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The completed spacecraft that will carry the Mars 2020 rover to the Red Planet, next year hangs suspended by cables inside the Space Simulator Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The image was taken on May 9, 2019.
The Mars 2020 Spacecraft Readies for Testing
​ This Mars map depicts the final four locations under consideration for the landing site of Mars 2020. 
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This Mars map depicts the final four locations under consideration for the landing site of Mars 2020.
Mars 2020's Final Four
This is the top-down view into a sample tube is the type of image CacheCam provides to the Mars 2020 team.
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This is the top-down view into a sample tube is the type of image CacheCam provides to the Mars 2020 team.
Mars 2020 CacheCam Sample Tube
A full-scale engineering model of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover now resides in a garage facing the Mars Yard at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
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Technicians move engineering model of Perseverance
Twin of NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover Moves Into New Home
This artist concept shows the location of the RIMFAX instrument on the next rover scheduled to launch for Mars.
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This artist concept shows the location of the RIMFAX instrument on the next rover scheduled to launch for Mars.
Artist Concept for RIMFAX
This artist's rendition depicts NASA's Mars 2020 rover studying rocks with its robotic arm.  
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NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Artist's Concept #3
NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Artist's Concept #3
NASA's Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will be the first aircraft to fly in a controlled way on another planet. 
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NASA's Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will be the first aircraft to fly in a controlled way on another planet.
NASA Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Media Reel
The helicopter was tested on a stand while the cruise stage was tested on the rotation fixture. 
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The helicopter was tested on a stand while the cruise stage was tested on the rotation fixture.
Inspecting NASA's Mars Helicopter
This illustration depicts five major components of the Mars 2020 spacecraft. Top to bottom: cruise stage, backshell, descent stage, Perseverance rover and heat shield.
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3D rendering of major Mars 2020 spacecraft parts in expanded view: cruise stage, backshell, descent stage, rover, heat shield
Mars 2020 Expanded Spacecraft Illustration
This X-ray image shows the interior of a 3D-printed heat exchanger in Perseverance's MOXIE instrument. X-ray images like these are used to check for defects within parts.
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This X-ray image shows the interior of a palm-size 3D-printed MOXIE instrument
X-ray Image of 3D-Printed MOXIE Part
Top center: The plate on the aft crossbeam of NASA's Mars Perseverance rover — seen here on March 16, 2020, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center— carries 10,932,295 names submitted by people during NASA'...
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Mars Perseverance rover at Kennedy Space Center in Florida
Perseverance Rover at Cape
This image shows the remains of an ancient delta in Mars' Jezero Crater, which NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will explore for signs of fossilized microbial life. The image was taken by the High Re...
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A view of Mars' Jezero Crater
Jezero Crater as Seen by ESA's Mars Express Orbiter
In this photo taken on Oct. 1, 2019, the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter (between left and center rover wheels) have just completed a multiweek evaluation under Mars-...
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Mars 2020 Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Deployment Test
Another view of NASA's Perseverance rover attached to a spin table during a test of its mass properties at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The image was taken on April 7, 2020.
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Perseverance Rover on Spin Table at Kennedy Space Center
Perseverance Rover on Spin Table at Kennedy Space Center
From left to right: Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin stands on the Moon; 47 pounds (21.5 kilograms) of samples were brought back to Earth from that mission; the Mars 2020 rover, seen here in an arti...
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From left to right: Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin stands on the Moon; 47 pounds (21.5 kilograms) of samples were brought back to Earth from that mission; the Mars 2020 rover, seen here in an artist's concept rover, will be taking the first planetary samples at Jezero Crater, Mars (on right).
Sample Return Firsts
JPL mechanical technician Eddie Castro uses a paint meter to measure the paint thickness on the Mars 2020 rover chassis.
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JPL mechanical technician Eddie Castro uses a paint meter to measure the paint thickness on the Mars 2020 rover chassis.
Measuring Up
Exploration Timeline
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Evolving Science Strategies for Mars Exploration
Evolving Science Strategies for Mars Exploration
This image of NASA's Mars 2020 rover was taken on July 23, 2019 in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility's High Bay 1 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
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This image of NASA's Mars 2020 rover was taken on July 23, 2019 in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility's High Bay 1 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Mars 2020 Rover on Stand

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