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Perseverance Gets Chilled

This animated GIF shows Perseverance rover's during a cold test in a space simulation chamber.

May 18, 2020

This animated GIF shows the deployment of the Perseverance rover's remote sensing mast during a cold test in a space simulation chamber at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The test took place in October 2019.

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