Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Photo of the Day #2: Bringin' Da Noise to America's Next Mars Rover...

The Mars 2020 spacecraft is prepped for acoustic testing inside the Environmental Test Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Pasadena, California...on April 11, 2019.
NASA / JPL - Caltech

Mars 2020 is Wired for Sound (News Release)

Engineers and technicians working on NASA's Mars 2020 mission prepare spacecraft components for acoustic testing in the Environmental Test Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The spacecraft is being tested in the same configuration it will be in when sitting atop the Atlas rocket that will launch the latest rover towards Mars in July 2020.

The image was taken on April 11, 2019, at JPL.

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.

Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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