Engineers prepare NASA's Mars 2020 spacecraft components for acoustic testing in the Environmental Test Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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.
For more information about the mission, go to:
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech