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PIA22111: NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Artist's Concept #1 (Updated)
 Target Name:  Mars
 Mission:  Mars 2020 Rover
 Product Size:  5000 x 2813 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  JPL
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA22111.tif (31.7 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA22111.jpg (1.908 MB)

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

The mission will not only seek out and study an area likely to have been habitable in the distant past, but it will take the next, bold step in robotic exploration of the Red Planet by seeking signs of past microbial life itself.

Mars 2020 will use powerful instruments to investigate rocks on Mars down to the microscopic scale of variations in texture and composition. It will also acquire and store samples of the most promising rocks and soils that it encounters, and set them aside on the surface of Mars. A future mission could potentially return these samples to Earth.

Mars 2020 is targeted for launch in July/August 2020 aboard an Atlas V-541 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory builds and manages the Mars 2020 rover for the NASA Science Mission Directorate at the agency's headquarters in Washington.

For more information about the mission, go to https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/.

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Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2017-11-17