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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-03-05 Mars 2020 Rover
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This illustration depicts NASA's Perseverance rover operating on the surface of Mars.
PIA23764:
Perseverance on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-07-28 Mars 2020 Project
Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC)
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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
Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC)
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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
Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC)
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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 2020-09-03 Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance rover undergoes a 10-day test in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility's High Bay 1 at JPL. The image was taken on Nov. 16, 2019.
PIA24044:
10 Days of Perseverance
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-09-03 Mars 2020 Rover
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This image taken on Nov. 16, 2019, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, captures the port side of NASA's Perseverance rover.
PIA24045:
Port Side of Perseverance
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-09-03 Mars 2020 Rover
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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.
PIA24046:
A Microphone for Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-09-04 Mars 2020 Rover
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Engineers test drive the Earth-bound twin of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover for the first time in a warehouselike assembly room at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
PIA23964:
Perseverance Test Rover's First Drive
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-09-22 Mars 2020 Rover
Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry (PIXL)
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In this illustration, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover uses the Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry (PIXL), which will help search for signs of ancient microbial life in rocks.
PIA24092:
Perseverance's PIXL at Work on Mars (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-09-22 Mars 2020 Rover
Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry (PIXL)
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PIXL opens its dust cover during testing at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. One of seven instruments on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, PIXL is located on the end of the rover's robotic arm.
PIA24093:
Perseverance's PIXL Opens its Dust Cover
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-09-22 Mars 2020 Rover
Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry (PIXL)
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A device with six mechanical legs, the hexapod is a critical part of the PIXL instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. The hexapod allows PIXL to make slow, precise movements to get closer to and point at specific parts of a rock's surface.
PIA24094:
PIXL's Hexapod Has Moves
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-09-22 Mars 2020 Rover
Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry (PIXL)
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PIXL requires pictures of its rock targets to autonomously position itself. Using artificial intelligence, PIXL relies on the images to determine how far away it is from a target to be scanned.
PIA24095:
PIXL's Nightlight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-08 Mars 2020 Rover
Radar Imager for Mars' Subsurface Experiment (RIMFAX)
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Perseverance's Radar Imager for Mars' Subsurface Experiment (RIMFAX) uses radar waves to probe the ground, revealing the unexplored world that lies beneath the Martian surface.
PIA24047:
RIMFAX at Work on NASA's Perseverance (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-08 Mars 2020 Rover
Radar Imager for Mars' Subsurface Experiment (RIMFAX)
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A test model of the RIMFAX instrument, aboard the trailer behind the snow mobile, undergoes field testing in Svalbard, Norway.
PIA24048:
Testing RIMFAX for NASA's Perseverance Rover
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-08 Mars 2020 Rover
Radar Imager for Mars' Subsurface Experiment (RIMFAX)
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Highlighted in blue in this visualization, the RIMFAX instrument's antenna is externally mounted underneath the MMRTG (the rover's nuclear battery) on the back of Perseverance.
PIA24049:
RIMFAX Location on NASA's Perseverance Rover (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-15 Mars 2020 Rover
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This illustration depicts five major components of the Mars 2020 spacecraft.
PIA24128:
Mars 2020 Expanded Spacecraft Illustration
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-19 Mars 2020 Rover
Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE)
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This X-ray image shows the interior of a 3D-printed heat exchanger in Perseverance's MOXIE instrument. X-ray images like these are used to check for defects within parts.
PIA24100:
X-ray Image of 3D-Printed MOXIE Part
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-19 Mars 2020 Rover
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This video clip shows a 3D printing technique where a printer head scans over each layer of a part, blowing metal powder which is melted by a laser.
PIA23972:
Video of 3D printing at JPL
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-19 Mars 2020 Rover
Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE)
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This nickel-alloy heat exchanger is among several that were 3D printed for MOXIE, an instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
PIA24171:
Close-up of 3D printed MOXIE Heat Exchanger
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-13 Mars 2020 Project
Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA)
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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
Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA)
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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 2020-11-24 Mars 2020 Rover
Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE)
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Engineers lower MOXIE into the belly of NASA's Perseverance rover.
PIA24176:
Engineers Lower MOXIE into Perseverance
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-24 Mars 2020 Rover
Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE)
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An illustration of MOXIE and its components. An air pump pulls in carbon dioxide gas from the Martian atmosphere, which is then regulated and fed to the Solid OXide Electrolyzer (SOXE), where it is electrochemically split to produce pure oxygen.
PIA24177:
Components of MOXIE (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-12-08 Mars 2020 Rover
Mastcam-Z
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Scientists use the color swatches on the primary calibration target for Mastcam-Z aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. Symbols and mottos relevant to the mission are included around the target's perimeter.
PIA24178:
Mastcam-Z's Calibration Target
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-12-08 Mars 2020 Rover
SuperCam
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This fragment of a Martian meteorite, seen floating inside the International Space Station, is is now part of a calibration target for SuperCam, one of the instruments aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
PIA24179:
Supercam's Mars Meteorite Aboard the ISS
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-12-08 Mars 2020 Rover
Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC)
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The calibration target for SHERLOC, one of the instruments aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, features a slice of Martian meteorite, plus spacesuit materials, including helmet-visor material that doubles as a geocache target.
PIA24261:
SHERLOC's Calibration Target Aboard the Perseverance Mars Rover
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-12-16 Mars 2020 Rover
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This illustration shows NASA's Mars 2020 spacecraft carrying the Perseverance rover as it approaches Mars. Hundreds of critical events must execute perfectly and exactly on time for the rover to land on Mars safely on Feb. 18, 2021.
PIA24311:
Perseverance Rover Approaches Mars (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-12-16 Mars 2020 Rover
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This illustration shows NASA's Perseverance rover casting off its spacecraft's cruise stage, minutes before entering the Martian atmosphere.
PIA24312:
Perseverance Rover's Cruise Stage Separates (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-12-16 Mars 2020 Rover
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With its heat shield facing the planet, NASA's Perseverance rover begins its descent through the Martian atmosphere in this illustration.
PIA24313:
Entering the Martian Atmosphere with the Perseverance Rover (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-12-16 Mars 2020 Rover
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In this illustration of its descent to Mars, the spacecraft containing NASA's Perseverance rover slows down using the drag generated by its motion in the Martian atmosphere.
PIA24314:
Perseverance Rover Decelerates in the Martian Atmosphere (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-12-16 Mars 2020 Rover
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The aeroshell containing NASA's Perseverance rover guides itself towards the Martian surface as it descends through the atmosphere in this illustration.
PIA24315:
Perseverance Guides Itself Towards the Surface (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-12-16 Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance rover deploys a supersonic parachute from its aeroshell as it slows down before landing, in this artist's illustration.
PIA24316:
Perseverance Deploys its Parachute (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-12-16 Mars 2020 Rover
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In this illustration, NASA's Perseverance rover gets its first look at the Martian surface below, after dropping its heat shield just under six minutes after entry into the Mars atmosphere.
PIA24317:
Perseverance Heat Shield Separates (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-12-16 Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance rover fires up its descent stage engines as it nears the Martian surface in this illustration.
PIA24318:
Powered Descent for Perseverance (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-12-16 Mars 2020 Rover
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An illustration of NASA's Perseverance rover landing safely on Mars. Hundreds of critical events must execute perfectly and exactly on time for the rover to land safely on Feb. 18, 2021.
PIA24319:
Perseverance Touches Down on Mars (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-12-16 Mars 2020 Rover
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This map of Mars shows the landing site for NASA's Perseverance rover in relation to those of previous successful Mars missions. The newest addition to the group, Perseverance is set to land in Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021.
PIA24320:
Mars Landing Sites, Including Perseverance (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-12-21 Mars 2020 Rover
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An illustration of NASA's Mars Perseverance rover deploying its supersonic parachute from its aeroshell as it slows down before landing.
PIA24341:
Swoosh Goes the Parachute (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-12-21 Mars 2020 Rover
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An illustration of NASA's Perseverance rover landing on Mars.
PIA24342:
Perseverance Rover Touchdown (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-12-21 Mars 2020 Rover
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This illustration shows NASA's Mars Perseverance rover on the surface of the Red Planet.
PIA24343:
Perseverance Rover on Mars (Illustration)
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An illustration of NASA's Mars Perseverance rover deploying its supersonic parachute from its aeroshell as it slows down before landing.
PIA24344:
Swoosh Goes the Parachute (Gradient Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-12-21 Mars 2020 Rover
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An illustration of NASA's Perseverance rover landing on Mars.
PIA24345:
Perseverance Rover Touchdown (Gradient Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-12-21 Mars 2020 Rover
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This illustration shows NASA's Mars Perseverance rover on the surface of the Red Planet.
PIA24346:
Perseverance Rover on Mars (Gradient Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-12-21 Mars 2020 Rover
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An illustration of the planet Mars, highlighting NASA's Mars Perseverance rover and future human explorers.
PIA24347:
Mars Perseverance Rover Mission (Humans and Robots Illustration)
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An illustration of the planet Mars, highlighting NASA's Mars Perseverance rover mission.
PIA24348:
Mars Perseverance Rover (Gradient Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-12-22 Mars 2020 Rover
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A technician working on the Mars 2020 mission takes a sample from the surface of sample tube 241, to test for contamination. The image was taken in a clean room facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where the tubes were developed and assembled.
PIA24294:
Sampling Mars 2020 Sample Tube 241
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-12-22 Mars 2020 Rover
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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.
PIA24304:
CT Scan of Mars Sample Tube
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-12-22 Mars 2020 Rover
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A tray holding 39 sample tubes, each protected in a gold-colored sheath, is installed in NASA's Perseverance rover in this picture taken at the agency's Kennedy Space Center on May 21, 2020.
PIA24305:
Installing Perseverance's Sample Tubes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-12-22 Mars 2020 Rover
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This illustration depicts the exterior of a sample tube being carried aboard the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover.
PIA24306:
Anatomy of a Sample Tube
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-12-22 Mars 2020 Rover
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This illustration depicts the interior of a sample tube being carried aboard the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover.
PIA24307:
Anatomy of a Sample Tube Interior
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-01-08 Mars 2020 Rover
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This illustration shows the events that occur in the final minutes of the nearly seven-month journey that NASA's Perseverance rover takes to Mars.
PIA24285:
Perseverance Rover's Entry, Descent and Landing Profile
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-01-08 Mars 2020 Rover
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The target landing area of NASA's Perseverance rover is overlaid on this image of its landing site on Mars, Jezero Crater.
PIA24349:
Zeroing in on the Target
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-01-08 Mars 2020 Rover
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The white circle near the center of this image of Mars represents the location where NASA's Perseverance rover is expected to land on Feb. 18, 2021.
PIA24350:
Perseverance Rover Landing Ellipse in Jezero Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-01-19 Mars 2020 Rover
Mastcam-Z
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With two cameras set about 10 inches apart at the top of the Mars 2020 rover's remote sensing mast, Mastcam-Z can produce a 3D image to be viewed with 3D glasses.
PIA24196:
Mastcam-Z Can See in 3D
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Mastcam-Z
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A JPL optical technician performs a final inspection and swab cleaning of the front optics of the Mars 2020 mission's Perseverance rover Mastcam-Z cameras at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in March 2020.
PIA24197:
Mastcam-Z Final Lens Cleaning
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Mastcam-Z
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The Mars 2020 Mastcam-Z cameras are on a workbench during their assembly at Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego.
PIA24198:
Mastcam-Z Looking Left
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Mastcam-Z
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This modern-looking geoboard adds a pop of color to the lab at Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego, California.
PIA24199:
Modern Art for Mastcam-Z
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Mastcam-Z
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The twin Mars 2020 Mastcam-Z cameras, shown with a pocket knife for scale, are assembled and ready for testing in this photo taken at Malin Space Science Systems, in San Diego, California.
PIA24200:
Ready for a Close Up (or a Wide Angle)
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Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE)
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The engineering model (EM), an almost identical twin of Mars 2020's MOXIE, is used for testing in the lab at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
PIA24201:
MOXIE Twin During Testing
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Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE)
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This engineering model of Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) instrument is about to undergo vibration testing in a lab at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
PIA24202:
MOXIE Shakes it UP
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Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE)
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In this image, the gold-plated Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) Instrument shines after being installed inside the Perseverance rover.
PIA24203:
MOXIE All Tucked In
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Radar Imager for Mars' Subsurface Experiment (RIMFAX)
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This image, taken in the clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, shows the Radar Imager for Mars' Subsurface Experiment (RIMFAX) electronic's box after it has been inserted into the Perseverance rover.
PIA24204:
The Parts Inside Perseverance
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Radar Imager for Mars' Subsurface Experiment (RIMFAX)
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The Radar Imager for Mars' Subsurface Experiment (RIMFAX) electronics box before being integrated into the Perseverance rover at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
PIA24205:
This Gold Box to Searches for Buried Treasure
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Radar Imager for Mars' Subsurface Experiment (RIMFAX)
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The bowtie-shaped antenna for the Radar Imager for Mars' Subsurface Experiment (RIMFAX) instrument has been mounted on the underside of the Perseverance rover.
PIA24206:
Put a Bowtie on It!
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SuperCam
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The mast-mounted portion of Mars 2020's SuperCam awaits integration into the Perseverance rover.
PIA24207:
SuperCam is Not Seeing Red
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SuperCam
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SuperCam's mast unit before being installed atop the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover's remote sensing mast.
PIA24208:
SuperCam Mast Unit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-01-27 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This illustration depicts the some of the major milestones NASA's Perseverance rover will go through during its seven-minute descent to the Martian surface on Feb. 18, 2021.
PIA24265:
Perseverance's Stages of Descent (Illustration)
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This image is an illustration of NASA's Perseverance rover exploring inside Mars' Jezero Crater.
PIA24309:
Exploring Majestic Jezero Crater (Illustration)
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This graphic shows the location of four cameras and a microphone on the spacecraft for NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance mission. These cameras will capture the entry, descent, and landing phase of the mission.
PIA24378:
Mars 2020 Camera and Microphone Location (Illustration)
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This graphic shows the B-Plane for NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission as of February 15, 2021.
PIA24296:
Mars 2020's B-Plane
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SuperCam
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This narrated animation shows NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars and how the rover's SuperCam laser instrument works.
PIA24426:
Animation: How Perseverance's SuperCam Works
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NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is equipped with two microphones that will capture the sounds during entry, descent, and landing, and sounds on the Martian surface.
PIA24166:
Mars 2020 Microphone Testing at JPL
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The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will rely on data depicted in this Hazard Map to help guide it to a safe landing.
PIA24167:
Jezero's Hazard Map
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Hazard Avoidance Camera (M2020)
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This is one of the first images NASA's Perseverance rover sent back after touching down on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. The view, from one of Perseverance's Hazard Cameras, is partially obscured by a dust cover. The rover's shadow can be seen at left.
PIA24268:
Perseverance Rover's First Image from Mars
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NASA's Perseverance rover was able to use its new Terrain-Relative Navigation technology to avoid hazards and find a safe place to land in Jezero Crater on Mars.
PIA23970:
Avoiding Hazards at Jezero Crater
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This is a high-resolution still image, part of a video taken by several cameras as NASA's Perseverance rover touched down on Mars. A camera aboard the descent stage captured this shot.
PIA24428:
High-Resolution Still Image of Perseverance's Landing
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Hazard Avoidance Camera (M2020)
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This high-resolution image shows one of the six wheels aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, which landed on Feb.18, 2021. The image was taken by one of Perseverance's color Hazard Cameras (Hazcams).
PIA24429:
Perseverance's Big Wheel
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Hazard Avoidance Camera (M2020)
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This is the first high-resolution, color image to be sent back by the Hazard Cameras (Hazcams) on the underside NASA's Perseverance Mars rover after its landing on Feb. 18, 2021.
PIA24430:
Perseverance's First Full-Color Look at Mars
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Navigation Camera (M2020)
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The Navigation Cameras, or Navcams, aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this view of the rover's deck on Feb. 20, 2021. This view provides a good look at PIXL, one of the instruments on the rover's stowed arm.
PIA24421:
Navcam View of Perseverance's Rover Deck
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Navigation Camera (M2020)
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This panorama, taken on Feb. 20, 2021, by the Navigation Cameras, or Navcams, aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, was stitched together from six individual images after they were sent back to Earth.
PIA24422:
Perseverance Navcams 360-Degree Panorama
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Mastcam-Z
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Mastcam-Z, a pair of zoomable cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance rover, imaged its calibration targets for the first time on Feb. 20, 2021. The targets are used as reference markers so scientists can adjust the colors and settings on the cameras.
PIA24423:
Mastcam-Z Looks at Its Calibration Target
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This annotated image was taken by a parachute-up-look camera aboard the protective back shell of NASA's Perseverance rover during its descent toward Mars' Jezero Crater on February 18, 2021.
PIA24431:
Mars Decoder Ring
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Mastcam-Z
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This is the first 360-degree panorama taken by Mastcam-Z, a zoomable pair of cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. The panorama was stitched together from 142 individual images taken on February 21, 2021.
PIA24264:
Mastcam-Z's First 360-Degree Panorama
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Hazard Avoidance Camera (M2020)
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This image from one of the rear Hazcams, aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, shows a smoke plume from the crashed descent stage that lowered the rover to the Martian surface.
PIA24425:
Black and White: Smoke Plume from Perseverance's Descent Stage
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Mastcam-Z
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Stitched together from 79 individual images, this Mars 2020 Mastcam-Z right-eye 110-mm zoom mosaic is from the camera's first high-resolution panorama imaging sequence.
PIA23727:
Perseverance's Mastcam-Z First High-Resolution Panorama
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Mastcam-Z
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This GIF shows the order in which the 142 images that makeup the Mastcam-Z's first 360-degree panorama were taken. Mastcam-Z is a pair of zoomable cameras on the mast, or head, of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
PIA24444:
GIF: How Mastcam-Z's 360-Degree Panorama Was Taken
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Mastcam-Z
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This image shows the 142 images that make up Mastcam-Z's first 360-degree panorama. Mastcam-Z is a pair of zoomable cameras on the mast, or head, of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
PIA24445:
Still: How Mastcam-Z's 360-Degree Panorama Was Taken
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Lander Vision System Camera (LCAM)
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This image was taken by the Lander Vision System Camera (LCAM) of NASA's Perseverance rover. The camera served as part of the Terrain-Relative Navigation system, a kind of autopilot that helps the spacecraft avoid hazards.
PIA24446:
Perseverance's LCAM Views the Heat Shield During Descent
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Lander Vision System Camera (LCAM)
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This image was taken by the Lander Vision System Camera (LCAM) of NASA's Perseverance rover. The camera served as part of the Terrain-Relative Navigation system, a kind of autopilot that helps the spacecraft avoid hazards as it lands.
PIA24447:
LCAM Views the Heat Shield After Being Released from Mars 2020 Spacecraft
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Navigation Camera (M2020)
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This image was taken during the first drive of NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars on March 4, 2021.
PIA24487:
Perseverance Is Roving on Mars
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This set of images shows parts of the robotic arm on NASA's Perseverance rover flexing and turning during its first checkout after landing on Mars.
PIA24338:
Flexing Perseverance's Robotic Arm
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Navigation Camera (M2020)
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NASA's Perseverance rover wiggles one of its wheels in this set of images obtained by the rover's left Navigation Camera on March 4, 2021.
PIA24340:
Perseverance Wiggles a Wheel
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Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA)
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This set of images shows part of the deployment of the Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA) wind sensors on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, taken by the rover's Navigation Cameras on Feb. 28, 2021.
PIA24339:
Perseverance's Weather Sensors Deployed
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This simulation shows the motions the robotic arm on NASA's Perseverance rover carried out during its first two-hour checkout on Mars. This simulation does not run in real-time.
PIA24332:
Simulation of Perseverance Arm Movement
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Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory driving the agency's Perseverance rover use visualization software to plan how the rover moves around on Mars. This clip from their visualization shows the rover's first drive on March 4, 2021.
PIA24481:
Perseverance Drive Visualization
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Hazard Avoidance Camera (M2020)
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This image was captured while NASA's Perseverance rover drove on Mars for the first time on March 4, 2021. One of Perseverance's Hazcams captured this image as the rover completed a short traverse and turn from its landing site in Jezero Crater.
PIA24482:
Perseverance Hazcam First Drive
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Mastcam-Z
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Taken Feb. 22, 2021, this image from the Mastcam-Z instrument on NASA's Perseverance rover shows a target for analysis by the rover's SuperCam instrument.
PIA24484:
A Target for Perseverance's SuperCam
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Mastcam-Z
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From its landing site, Octavia E. Butler Landing, NASA's Perseverance rover can see a remnant of a fan-shaped deposit of sediments known as a delta (the raised area of dark brown rock in the middle ground) with its Mastcam-Z instrument.
PIA24485:
Perseverance View of the Delta in Jezero Crater
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Navigation Camera (M2020)
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Taken on March 5, 2021, this color-calibrated image from a Navigation Camera aboard NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover shows tracks from the rover's first drive and an area scoured by the Mars 2020 mission's descent stage rockets.
PIA24488:
Rocket Scour and Wheel Prints
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Hazard Avoidance Camera (M2020)
Navigation Camera (M2020)
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These sets of animated GIFs show seven views of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover wiggling its wheels on March 4, 2021, the day Perseverance completed its first drive on Mars.
PIA24489:
Multiple Views of Perseverance's Wheels Wiggling
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Navigation Camera (M2020)
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The imagery for this animated gif was taken on March 5, 2021, by a Navigation Camera on NASA's Perseverance rover during its first drive on Mars.
PIA24490:
Perseverance Is Moving Right Along
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