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PIA24304: CT Scan of Mars Sample Tube
This animation shows the data collected on a Mars 2020 sample tube using a computerized tomography (CT) scanner. Engineers working on the sample tubes used the 3D imagery to better understand the tubes' internal structure.
 Mission:  Mars 2020 Rover 
 Spacecraft:  Perseverance
 Product Size:  1600 x 900 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA24304.tif (352.1 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA24304.jpg (32.27 kB)  

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This animation shows the data collected on a Mars 2020 sample tube using a computerized tomography (CT) scanner. Engineers working on the sample tubes used the 3D imagery to better understand the tubes' internal structure.

About the size and shape of a standard lab test tube, the 43 sample tubes headed to Mars must be lightweight, hardy enough to survive the demands of the round trip, and so clean that future scientists will be confident that what they are analyzing is 100% Mars.

JPL 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:
2020-12-22