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PIA23316: The Tippy Top of Mars 2020

This image shows a close-up of the head of Mars 2020's remote sensing mast. The mast head contains the SuperCam instrument.

Mission:	Mars 2020 Rover
Spacecraft:	Mars 2020 Rover
Product Size:	7360 x 4912 pixels (w x h)
Produced By:	JPL
Full-Res TIFF:	PIA23316.tif (58.75 MB)
Full-Res JPEG:	PIA23316.jpg (3.469 MB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This image, taken in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility's High Bay 1 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, on July 23, 2019, shows a close-up of the head of Mars 2020's remote sensing mast. The mast head contains the SuperCam instrument (its lens is in the large circular opening). In the gray boxes beneath mast head are the two Mastcam-Z imagers. On the exterior sides of those imagers are the rover's two navigation cameras.

JPL is building and will manage operations of 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/.

Image Credit:

NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:

2019-08-01