Members of NASA's Mars Helicopter team attach a thermal film enclosure to the fuselage of the flight model (the actual vehicle going to the Red Planet). 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.
For more information about the mission, go to https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/ .
Name | Value | Additional Values |
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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/PIA23157 | |
Identifier | PIA23157 |