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PIA23986: Maneuvering Perseverance
The nose cone containing NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is maneuvered into place atop its Atlas V rocket. The image was taken at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on July 7, 2020.
 Mission:  Mars 2020 Project 
 Spacecraft:  Mars 2020 Rover
 Product Size:  4480 x 6720 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Kennedy Space Center 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA23986.tif (81.59 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA23986.jpg (3.519 MB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

The payload fairing, or nose cone, containing NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is maneuvered into place atop the Atlas V rocket that will hurl it toward Mars. The image was taken on July 7, 2020, inside the Vertical Integration Facility at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 41 in Florida.

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

Image Credit:
NASA/KSC

Image Addition Date:
2020-07-09