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PIA24046: A Microphone for Mars
The Entry Descent and Landing (EDL) microphone can be seen mounted to the top of a black-painted cable bracket in this image taken of the port-side of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. Image taken on Nov. 16, 2019.
 Mission:  Mars 2020 Rover 
 Spacecraft:  Perseverance
 Product Size:  3024 x 4032 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA24046.tif (30.29 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA24046.jpg (1.232 MB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

Components are visible on the port side of the Perseverance rover in this close-up image taken on Nov. 16, 2019, in High Bay 1 of the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. At center of the image, attached to the side of the rover, is a black cable bracket (with gold cabling running through it). Attached to the top of this black bracket — and gray in color — is the Entry Descent and Landing (EDL) microphone. Below the cable bracket are the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) wall ports. The orange cable passing over it is part of ground support equipment.

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

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2020-09-03