PIA18405: Payload for NASA's Mars 2020 Rover


Payload for NASA’s Mars 2020 Rover

Caption:

This diagram shows components of the investigations payload for NASA's Mars 2020 rover mission.

Mars 2020 is a mission concept that NASA announced in late 2012 to re-use the basic engineering of Mars Science Laboratory to send a different rover to Mars, with new objectives and instruments, launching in 2020.

Background Info:

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages NASA's Mars Exploration Program for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington.

Cataloging Keywords:

Name Value Additional Values
Target Mars
System
Target Type Planet
Mission Mars 2020 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Instrument Host Curiosity Rover
Host Type Rover
Instrument
Detector
Extra Keywords Color
Acquisition Date
Release Date 2014-07-31
Date in Caption
Image Credit NASA
Source photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA18405
Identifier PIA18405