Gift Wrapped Mars Wheel
This wheel, and five others just like it, is headed to Mars on NASA's Perseverance rover; the launch window opens July 17, 2020. Wrapped in a protective antistatic foil that will be removed before launch, the wheel is 20.7 inches (52.6 centimeters) in diameter and machined from a solid block of aluminum; the spokes are titanium. The image was taken on March 30, 2020, at a payload processing facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA23822
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PIA23822
Date Created
April 3, 2020
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JPL
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