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The Team for Jezero Crater

Members of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission pose at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the mission, on July 17, 2019.

June 17, 2020

Members of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission pose at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the mission, on July 17, 2019.

For more information about the mission, go to https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/.

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