PIA23157: Composing Mars Helicopter
Members of NASA's Mars Helicopter team attach a thermal film enclosure to the fuselage of the flight model. The image was taken on Feb. 1, 2019.
 Mission:  Mars Helicopter 
 Spacecraft:  Ingenuity
 Product Size:  8256 x 5504 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA23157.tif (110.3 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA23157.jpg (6.745 MB)  

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Members of NASA's Mars Helicopter team attach a thermal film enclosure to the fuselage of the flight model (the actual vehicle going to the Red Planet). The image was taken on Feb. 1, 2019, inside the Space Simulator, a 25-foot-wide (7.62-meter-wide) vacuum chamber at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

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