PIA24204: The Parts Inside Perseverance


The Parts Inside Perseverance

Caption:

This image, taken in the clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, shows the Radar Imager for Mars' Subsurface Experiment (RIMFAX) electronic's box after it has been inserted into the Perseverance rover. The gold-plated electronics box is at the top of the opening. RIMFAX's antenna will be mounted on the bottom rear of the rover.

Background Info:

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California built and will manage operations of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover for NASA.

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 Radar Imager for Mars' subsurface experiment (RIMFAX)
Detector
Extra Keywords Color, Radar
Acquisition Date
Release Date 2021-01-20
Date in Caption
Image Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech
Source photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA24204
Identifier PIA24204