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PIA24208: SuperCam Mast Unit

SuperCam's mast unit before being installed atop the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover's remote sensing mast.

Mission:	Mars 2020 Rover
Spacecraft:	Perseverance
Instrument:	SuperCam
Product Size:	2540 x 1905 pixels (w x h)
Produced By:	JPL
Full-Res TIFF:	PIA24208.tif (11.3 MB)
Full-Res JPEG:	PIA24208.jpg (490.5 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

SuperCam's mast unit before being installed atop the Perseverance rover's remote sensing mast. SuperCam fires a laser at rock or soil targets up to 20 feet (7 meters) away, and then analyzes the vaporized rock to reveal the composition. SuperCam's telescope peers out through a window seen on the right side of the unit, above a microphone (hidden by a red protective cover in this image), which will pick up the sounds of rocks being vaporized by the laser. The electronics are inside the gold-plated box on the left. The end of the laser peeks out from behind the left side of the electronics.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California built and will manage operations of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover for NASA.

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

Image Credit:

NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:

2021-01-20