PIA23153: Handling Mars Helicopter


Handling Mars Helicopter

Caption:

Members of the NASA Mars Helicopter team attach a thermal film to the exterior of the flight model of the Mars Helicopter. The image was taken on Feb. 1, 2019 inside the Space Simulator, a 25-foot-wide (7.62-meter-wide) vacuum chamber at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Background Info:

For more information about the mission, go to https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/ .

Cataloging Keywords:

Name Value Additional Values
Target Mars
System
Target Type Planet
Mission Mars 2020
Instrument Host Ingenuity
Host Type Helicopter
Instrument
Detector
Extra Keywords Color, Thermal
Acquisition Date
Release Date 2019-03-28
Date in Caption 2019-02-01
Image Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech
Source photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA23153
Identifier PIA23153