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PIA23156: Mars Helicopter Team Prepares for Test
Members of NASA's Mars Helicopter team prepare the flight model for a test in the Space Simulator at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
 Mission:  Mars Helicopter 
 Spacecraft:  Ingenuity
 Product Size:  4912 x 7360 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA23156.tif (104.9 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA23156.jpg (9.605 MB)  

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Members of NASA's Mars Helicopter team prepare the flight model (vehicle going to Mars) for a test in the Space Simulator, a 25-foot-wide (7.62-meter-wide) vacuum chamber at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The image was taken on Jan. 18, 2019.

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

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2019-03-28