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Workers attach reflective panels to the Mars Odyssey solar arrays for illumination testing. The Mars Orbiter is at...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, one of the three Ka-Band Objects Observation and...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the three Ka-Band Objects Observation and...
A worker (left) records data during illumination testing on the Mars Odyssey solar arrays he stands behind. The 2001...
In the Space Assembly and Encapsulation Building 2, an overhead crane moves the 2001 Mars Odyssey Orbiter from its...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, one of the three Ka-Band Objects Observation and...
At a work bench in the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility 2, workers test the Thermal Emission Imaging...
In the Space Assembly and Encapsulation Building 2, an overhead crane lifts the 2001 Mars Odyssey Orbiter off its...
In the Space Assembly and Encapsulation Building 2, an overhead crane moves the 2001 Mars Odyssey Orbiter from its...
In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility 2 (SAEF-2), the 2001 Mars Odyssey Orbiter sits on a workstand...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the three Ka-Band Objects Observation and...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the three Ka-Band Objects Observation and...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the three Ka-Band Objects Observation and...
NASA technicians and Engineers from SRON, the Netherlands Institute for Space Research, integrate the SPEXone...
Workers in the in the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility 2 (SAEF-2) set up the Mars Odyssey solar panels...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility -2 (SAEF-2), workers prepare the...
This view of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was generated using data collected by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard...
A portion of a cored-rock sample is ejected from the rotary percussive drill on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. The...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture this 360-degree panorama of an area nicknamed...
Engineers working with NASA's Perseverance Mars rover set up this test area at the agency's Jet Propulsion...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the clean room high bay at the Astrotech payload processing facility near NASA’s Kennedy...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera system to capture this view as it was ascending to the rim...
This natural-color, high-resolution mosaic showing "Observation Rock" was taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument on...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the clean room high bay at the Astrotech payload processing facility near NASA’s Kennedy...