NASA’s Mars 2020 Unfoiled Again

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Caption:

Engineers working on NASA's Mars 2020 mission remove the inner layer of protective antistatic foil from the rover after a move from JPL's Spacecraft Assembly Facility to the Simulator Building for testing. Mars 2020 must meet extraordinary cleanliness standards before its launch next summer.

Background Info:

JPL is building and will manage operations of the Mars 2020 rover for the NASA Science Mission Directorate at the agency's headquarters in Washington.

For more information about the mission, go to https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/ .

Cataloging Keywords:

Name	Value	Additional Values
Target	Mars
System
Target Type	Planet
Mission	Mars 2020
Instrument Host	Perseverance
Host Type	Rover
Instrument
Detector
Extra Keywords	Color
Acquisition Date
Release Date	2019-10-18
Date in Caption
Image Credit	NASA/JPL-Caltech
Source	photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA23467
Identifier	PIA23467