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Technicians working on the Mars 2020 rover at JPL install the rover motor controller assembly, the electrical heart of the rover's mobility and motion systems.
Rover Getting Set to Motor
NASA's Mars 2020 rover looks at the horizon in this artist’s concept.
NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Artist's Concept #7
This illustration depicts the mechanism and conceptual research targets for an instrument named Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals, or SHERLOC.
Ultraviolet Instrument for Mars 2020 Rover is SHERLOC
In this August 5, 2019 image, the bit carousel - the heart of sampling and caching subsystem of NASA’s Mars 2020 mission - is attached to the front end of the rover.
Cache and Carry
Tests to measure the center of gravity and moments of inertia for the Mars 2020 rover aeroshell are performed on the spin table inside Kennedy Space Center’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility on...
Mars 2020 Spin Table Activities in PHSF
Members of NASA’s Mars 2020 project install the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) into the chassis of NASA’s next Mars rover.
This Is One Mars Rover With MOXIE
These two images illustrate the value of being able to identify different compositions at very small scales.
The Importance of Nested Scales of Observations, Fine Scales
Power for Mars 2020 The electricity needed to operate NASA's Mars 2020 rover (pictured here) is provided by a power system called a Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator, or MMRTG....
Power for Mars 2020
This artist's rendition depicts NASA's Mars 2020 rover studying its surroundings.
NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Artist's Concept #6
In this image, taken on June 13, 2019, engineers prepare the starboard legs and wheels — otherwise known as the mobility suspension — for integration onto NASA's Mars 2020 rover.
This Is What a Pit Stop Looks Like at JPL
A crane lifts the rocket-powered descent stage away from NASA's Mars 2020 rover after technicians tested the pyrotechnic charges that separate the two spacecraft.
NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Tests Descent-Stage Separation
Antennas of NASA's Deep Space Network provide two-way communications with spacecraft exploring the planets.
Deep Space Network antennas at Goldstone's "Apollo Valley"
This artist's rendition depicts NASA's Mars 2020 rover studying a Mars rock outrcrop.
NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Artist's Concept #2
PIXL breadboard maps of a paleoarchean altered conglomerate with unconformity surface, revealing complex lithology including rounded pyrite, chromite, zircon, K-Al-Cr clay in the fuchsitic mudstone...
PIXL Breadboard Maps of Paleoarchean
What does NASA do to get a rover ready for Mars? JPL’s paint shop does a thousand different paint jobs a year. And while every piece of spacecraft that comes through the shop is important, one head...
Painting Cars for Mars
Tour the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and see the Mars 2020 mission under construction. Project System Engineer Jennifer Trosper explains the hardware being buil...
Mars 2020 Rover Build Update
In time-lapse video bunny-suited engineers remove the inner layer of protective foil on NASA's Mars 2020 rover after it was moved to a different building at JPL for testing.
Mars 2020 Unwrapped and Ready for Testing
A slice of a meteorite scientists have determined came from Mars placed inside an oxygen plasma cleaner, which removes organics from the outside of surfaces. This slice will likely be used here on ...
Cleaning a Martian Meteorite
A team of engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, install the legs and wheels — otherwise known as the mobility suspension — on the Mars 2020 rover. The imagery for t...
Pit Crew for Mars: NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Gets Some Wheels (time lapse)
In this illustration, NASA's Mars 2020 rover uses its drill to core a rock sample on Mars.
Mars 2020 Collecting Sample (Artist's Concept)
The electricity for NASA's Mars 2020 rover is provided by a power system called a Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator, or MMRTG. The MMRTG will be inserted into the aft end of the r...
Power for Mars 2020
Bob Balaram, Teddy Tzanetos and Havard Grip from the NASA Mars Helicopter project discuss the sequence of events for the day’s flight testing.
Prepping for a Mars Helicopter Test
Mars 2020 rover arrives at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center for processing.
Mars 2020 Rover Arrival
Technicians working Mars 2020’s System’s Test 1 approach their workstation in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
Mars 2020 System Test 1
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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NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Closer to Getting Its Name
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NASA Invites Students to Name Mars 2020 Rover
The rover recently drilled two samples, and both showed the highest levels of clay ever found during the mission.
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For the first time, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has caught the Martian moon Phobos during a full moon phase. Each color in this new image represents a temperature range detected by Odyssey's infrared camera.
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