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Cleaning Mars 2020

Engineer wiping down hardware to limit the number of Earth microbes going to Mars

June 03, 2020

Wiping down hardware is part of the strategy to limit the number of Earth microbes going to the Red Planet for NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance mission. This cleaning takes place in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.

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