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NASA Mars Helicopter team members work the flight model (the vehicle going to Mars) in the Space Simulator.

March 28, 2019

NASA Mars Helicopter team members work the flight model (the vehicle going to Mars) in the Space Simulator, a 25-foot-wide (7.62-meter-wide) vacuum chamber, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The image was taken on Feb. 1, 2019.

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