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PIA23890: Parachute for Perseverance
This animated GIF shows a successful test of the parachute that will be used to land NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars.
 Mission:  Mars 2020 Project 
 Spacecraft:  Mars 2020 Rover
 Product Size:  1080 x 608 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA23890.tif (365.1 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA23890.jpg (37.91 kB)  

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This animated GIF shows a successful test of the parachute that will be used to land NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars. The images were taken on Sept. 7, 2018, during the third and final flight of the Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation Research Experiment (ASPIRE) project.

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

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2020-05-18