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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-04-03 Mars 2020 Project
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Three of the six flight wheels that will travel to Mars can be seen attached to NASA's Perseverance rover on March 30, 2020 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
PIA23821:
Wheels Up for Perseverance Rover
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-04-03 Mars 2020 Project
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This wheel, and five others just like it, heads to Mars on NASA's Perseverance rover this summer. The image was taken on March 30, 2020, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
PIA23822:
Gift Wrapped Mars Wheel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-04-20 Mars 2020 Project
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Another view of NASA's Perseverance rover attached to a spin table during a test of its mass properties at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The image was taken on April 7, 2020.
PIA23826:
Perseverance Rover on Spin Table at Kennedy Space Center
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-04-20 Mars 2020 Project
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This image of the Perseverance Mars rover was taken at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on April 7, 2020, during a test of the vehicle's mass properties.
PIA23828:
Inverted Rover at Kennedy Space Center
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-04-20 Mars 2020 Project
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NASA's Perseverance rover is moved during a test of its mass properties at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The image was taken on April 7, 2020.
PIA23829:
Lifting Perseverance Rover
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-04-21 Mars 2020 Project
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A technician points a smartphone camera at NASA's Perseverance rover during an inspection at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
PIA23825:
Smartphone Walkdown
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-04-21 Mars 2020 Project
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Ian Clark walks past mission countdown clocks in the Perseverance offices at JPL. Clark was needed on-Lab to supervise the assembly and cleaning of the sample tubes that will hold Martian sediment and rock.
PIA23830:
Countdown to Launch
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-04-21 Mars 2020 Project
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Members of NASA's Perseverance rover mission work remotely from home during the coronavirus outbreak.
PIA23881:
Portraits in Perseverance
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-05-06 Mars 2020 Project
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A field team sets up equipment in the Nevada desert in February 2020 as part of a training session for scientists who will work with NASA's Perseverance Mars rover after it lands.
PIA23776:
Perseverance Field Team Sets up in Nevada Desert
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-05-06 Mars 2020 Project
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Two members of a field team set up cameras in the Nevada desert in February 2020, as part of a simulated rover operation designed to train scientists who will work with NASA's Perseverance rover.
PIA23777:
Cameras in the Nevada Desert
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-05-06 Mars 2020 Project
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A member of a Mars 2020 science field team operates a subsurface radar in the Nevada desert in February 2020 as part of a practice exercise.
PIA23778:
Subsurface Radar That Looks Like a Jogging Stroller
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-05-06 Mars 2020 Project
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Made from fossilized microbes and sediment, these rounded rocks are stromatolites that were found in a dry lakebed during the Mars 2020 field exercise.
PIA23779:
Stromatolites in the Nevada Desert
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-05-06 Mars 2020 Project
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As part of the February 2020 training exercise, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory reviewed images and data sent by the Mars 2020 field team in the Nevada desert.
PIA23780:
Scientists Training for Mars Rover Operations
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-05-06 Mars 2020 Project
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Michael Tuite and Rachel Kronyak of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory served as part of the desert field team, sending images and data for review by scientists who will work with NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
PIA23892:
Science on the Horizon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-05-07 Mars 2020 Project
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NASA's Mars Perseverance rover's descent stage was recently stacked atop the rover at Kennedy Space Center, and the two were placed in their back shell.
PIA23884:
Perseverance from Below
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-05-07 Mars 2020 Project
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The cone-shaped back shell for NASA's Perseverance rover mission is shown in this April 29, 2020, image from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
PIA23885:
Protecting NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-05-07 Mars 2020 Project
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This image of the rocket-powered descent stage sitting on to of NASA's Perseverance rover was taken in a clean room at Kennedy Space Center on April 29, 2020.
PIA23886:
Perseverance Rover Gets in Launch Shape
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-05-18 Mars 2020 Project
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The spacecraft that will carry NASA's Perseverance rover to Mars is examined prior to an acoustic test in the Environmental Test Facility at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
PIA23887:
Mars Mission Sound Check
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-05-18 Mars 2020 Project
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This animated GIF shows a test of the mortar system that will be used on Feb. 18, 2021, to deploy the parachute for NASA's Perseverance rover.
PIA23888:
Launching a Mars Parachute
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-05-18 Mars 2020 Project
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This animated GIF shows the deployment of the Perseverance rover's remote sensing mast during a cold test in a space simulation chamber at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
PIA23889:
Perseverance Gets Chilled
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-05-18 Mars 2020 Project
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This animated GIF shows a successful test of the parachute that will be used to land NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars.
PIA23890:
Parachute for Perseverance
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-05-18 Mars 2020 Project
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In this June 2017 photo, the supersonic parachute design that will land NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021, undergoes testing in a wind tunnel at NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley.
PIA23916:
Wind Tunnel Testing Perseverance's Parachute
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-05-21 Mars 2020 Project
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The first stage of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V that will carry NASA's Perseverance rover into space is offloaded from an Antonov cargo plane at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 11, 2020.
PIA23917:
Mars Rocket Arrives by Air
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-05-21 Mars 2020 Project
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Some of the nearly 5,000 pounds (2,270 kilograms) of Perseverance mission flight hardware, test gear and equipment delivered to Kennedy Space Center on May 11, 2020, is unloaded from a NASA Wallops C-130.
PIA23918:
Unloading Mars Gear
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-05-26 Mars 2020 Project
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This image shows an engineering model of SHERLOC, one of the instruments onboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
PIA23894:
Mars 2020's SHERLOC Instrument
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-05-26 Mars 2020 Project
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In this test image by SHERLOC, an instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance rover, each color represents a different mineral detected on a rock's surface.
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Mineral Map Created During a Test of SHERLOC
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-06-03 Mars 2020 Project
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This image shows the wiping down of hardware to limit the number of Earth microbes going to the Red Planet for NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance mission.
PIA23717:
Cleaning Mars 2020
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Planetary protection engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory clean the tubes that will store Martian rock and sediment samples as part of NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance mission.
PIA23718:
Swabbing Perseverance Sample Tubes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-06-16 Mars 2020 Project
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In this illustration, NASA's Perseverance rover uses its Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry (PIXL) instrument to analyze a rock on the surface of Mars.
PIA23719:
PIXL Takes Aim at Rocks (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-06-17 Mars 2020 Project
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Attached to the Perseverance Mars rover, this aluminum plate commemorates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and pays tribute to the perseverance of healthcare workers around the world.
PIA23921:
Healthcare Workers to Be Honored on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-06-17 Mars 2020 Project
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In this artist's concept, a two-stage United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle speeds the Mars 2020 spacecraft toward the Red Planet. This will be NASA's fifth Mars launch on an Atlas V.
PIA23922:
Rocket to Mars (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-06-17 Mars 2020 Project
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Seen from below, NASA's the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover bears a plaque to the right of its middle wheel commemorating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and honoring the perseverance of healthcare workers around the world.
PIA23924:
Perseverance Rover with Commemorative Plate
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-06-17 Mars 2020 Project
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The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission's disk-shaped cruise stage sits atop the back shell, which contains the powered descent stage and Perseverance rover, in this image taken on May 28, 2020, at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
PIA23925:
One Last Earthly Look
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-07-08 Mars 2020 Project
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The Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator for NASA'S Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is shown during a fit check with the rover at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 16-17, 2020.
PIA23981:
Rover Power Source
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-07-08 Mars 2020 Project
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This image shows the Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator for NASA'S Mars 2020 Perseverance rover during a fit check at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 16-17, 2020.
PIA23982:
Testing Rover Power Source
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-07-08 Mars 2020 Project
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Technicians at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida perform a fit check between the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover and its Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator on April 16-17, 2020.
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Fitting the Rover's Power Supply
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-07-09 Mars 2020 Project
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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.
PIA23984:
Lifting Perseverance
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-07-09 Mars 2020 Project
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The nose cone containing the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover sits atop a motorized payload transporter at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on July 7, 2020.
PIA23985:
Perseverance on the Move
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-07-09 Mars 2020 Project
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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.
PIA23986:
Maneuvering Perseverance
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-07-28 Mars 2020 Project
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This graphic shows an illustration of a prototype astronaut suit along with suit samples included in the calibration target belonging to the SHERLOC instrument aboard the Perseverance rover.
PIA24033:
Spacesuit Materials on Perseverance's SHERLOC Calibration Target
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-07-28 Mars 2020 Project
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NASA scientist Trevor Graff peers at a calibration target, which will help fine-tune settings on the SHERLOC instrument carried aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. The target carries the first spacesuit materials sent to Mars.
PIA23979:
SHERLOC Cal Target With Scientist Trevor Graff
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-07-28 Mars 2020 Project
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This calibration target will help fine-tune settings for SHERLOC, one of the instruments carried aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. The target carries the first spacesuit materials sent to Mars as well as a fragment of a Martian meteorite.
PIA23980:
SHERLOC Cal Target
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-22 Mars 2020 Project
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MEDLI2 sensors are installed on the Mars 2020 heat shield and back shell prior that will protect NASA's Perseverance rover on its journey to the surface of Mars.
PIA23989:
MEDLI2 Onboard Mars 2020 Spacecraft
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-27 Mars 2020 Project
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This illustration of the Mars 2020 spacecraft in interplanetary space was generated using imagery from NASA's Eyes on the Solar System. The image is from the mission's midway point between Earth and Mars.
PIA24231:
Mars 2020 Spacecraft Mid-Cruise (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-27 Mars 2020 Project
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NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover reached its halfway point — 146.3 million miles (235.4 million kilometers) — on its journey to Jezero Crater on Oct. 27, 2020, at 1:40 p.m. PDT (4:40 EDT).
PIA24232:
Perseverance Rover at Halfway Point
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-10 Mars 2020 Project
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An electrical cable can be seen snaking its way along insulation material in this in-flight image of the interior of the Mars 2020 spacecraft on its way to the Red Planet.
PIA24233:
Mars 2020 Showing Some Inflight Heat
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-13 Mars 2020 Project
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SkyCam is a sky-facing camera aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. As part of MEDA, the rover's set of weather instruments, SkyCam will take images and video of clouds passing in the Martian sky.
PIA24174:
Perseverance Rover's SkyCam
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-13 Mars 2020 Project
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One of two wind sensors springs out of the mast on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. These sensors are part of Perseverance's weather instrumentation, called MEDA.
PIA24175:
MEDA's Wind Sensor Springs Out
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-13 Mars 2020 Project
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Attitude Control Systems lead Chris Pong donned a dinosaur-themed mask for his participation in the Mars 2020 mission's second trajectory correction maneuver at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
PIA24191:
Maneuvers While Masked
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-13 Mars 2020 Project
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The Mars 2020 navigation team celebrates Perseverance's nominal, or successful, trajectory correction maneuver in the Mission Support Area at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
PIA24192:
Celebrating a Good Day in Space
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-13 Mars 2020 Project
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Matt Smith, flight director for the second Mars 2020 mission trajectory correction maneuver (TCM-2), studying the screens at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
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All Systems Go for Planned Course Correction
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Propulsion Lead Rebekah Lam participates in Perseverance's second trajectory correction maneuver at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
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Propulsion Lead Checks the Tanks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-13 Mars 2020 Project
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Flight Director Matt Smith studies the data during the second post-launch trajectory correction maneuver during Perseverance's cruise to Mars.
PIA24195:
A Flight Director's Focus
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