PIA23984: Lifting Perseverance
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover waits to be lifted onto its Atlas V launch vehicle at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on July 7, 2020.
 Mission:  Mars 2020 Project 
 Spacecraft:  Mars 2020 Rover
 Product Size:  6720 x 4480 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Kennedy Space Center 
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Original Caption Released with Image:

A crane stands at the ready to hoist the payload fairing, or nose cone, containing NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover onto the top of an Atlas V launch vehicle. The image was taken at the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on July 7, 2020.

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

Image Credit:
NASA/KSC

Image Addition Date:
2020-07-09