The payload fairing, or nose cone, containing NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is maneuvered into place atop the Atlas V rocket that will hurl it toward Mars. The image was taken on July 7, 2020, inside the Vertical Integration Facility at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 41 in Florida.
For more information about the mission, go to https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/ .
Name | Value | Additional Values |
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Target | Mars | |
System | ||
Target Type | Planet | |
Mission | Mars 2020 | |
Instrument Host | Perseverance | |
Host Type | Rover | |
Instrument | ||
Detector | ||
Extra Keywords | Color | |
Acquisition Date | ||
Release Date | 2020-07-09 | |
Date in Caption | 2020-07-07 | |
Image Credit | NASA/KSC | |
Source | photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA23986 | |
Identifier | PIA23986 |