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​​Members of NASA's Mars 2020 project take a moment after attaching the remote sensing mast to the Mars 2020 rover.

June 14, 2019

Members of NASA's Mars 2020 project take a moment after attaching the remote sensing mast to the Mars 2020 rover.

The image was taken on June 5, 2019, in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility's High Bay 1 clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

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