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SHERLOC Calibration Target in the Clean Room

Image of engineers with the Mars 2020 SHERLOC Calibration Target in a clean room at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

June 12, 2019

This is the first Mars flight hardware that has been designed, assembled & tested at NASA-Johnson Space Center, led by Jacobs/JETS Chief Scientist Trevor Graff. It will carry the first space suit materials to Mars and will carry a piece of a martian meteorite back to the surface of Mars.

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