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Composing Mars Helicopter

Members of NASA’s Mars Helicopter team attach a thermal film enclosure to the fuselage of the flight model.

March 28, 2019

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.

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