• PIA26102: Psyche Orbital Operations

    Updated: 2023-09-30 18:57:43
     nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; Mission:  Psyche Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

  • PIA26101: Psyche Launch Ascent Timeline

    Updated: 2023-09-30 18:57:43
     nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; Mission:  Psyche Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

  • PIA26098: Imaging Spectrometer Inside Thermal Vacuum Chamber

    Updated: 2023-09-30 18:57:43
    PIA26098 : Imaging Spectrometer Inside Thermal Vacuum Chamber Mission : thinsp Carbon Mapper Spacecraft : thinsp Tanager-1 Instrument : thinsp Carbon Mapper Imaging Spectrometer Product Size : thinsp 1350 x 750 pixels w x h Produced By : thinsp JPL Full-Res TIFF : thinsp PIA26098.tif 3.039 MB Full-Res JPEG : thinsp PIA26098.jpg 151 kB Click on the image above to download a moderately sized image in JPEG format possibly reduced in size from original Original Caption Released with Image : Click here for animation A technician slides an imaging spectrometer instrument , which will measure the greenhouse gases methane and carbon dioxide from space , into a thermal vacuum test chamber at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in July 2023. The thermal vacuum chamber test is one

  • PIA26094: Imaging Spectrometer Vacuum Chamber Test

    Updated: 2023-09-30 18:57:43
    PIA26094 : Imaging Spectrometer Vacuum Chamber Test Mission : thinsp Carbon Mapper Spacecraft : thinsp Tanager-1 Instrument : thinsp Carbon Mapper Imaging Spectrometer Product Size : thinsp 3024 x 4032 pixels w x h Produced By : thinsp JPL Full-Res TIFF : thinsp PIA26094.tif 29.7 MB Full-Res JPEG : thinsp PIA26094.jpg 1.581 MB Click on the image above to download a moderately sized image in JPEG format possibly reduced in size from original Original Caption Released with Image : An engineer prepares the Carbon Mapper imaging spectrometer , which will measure the greenhouse gases methane and carbon dioxide from space , for testing in a thermal vacuum chamber at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in July 2023. This test is one of a series meant to ensure that the

  • PIA26093: Imaging Spectrometer Vibration Test

    Updated: 2023-09-30 18:57:43
    PIA26093 : Imaging Spectrometer Vibration Test Mission : thinsp Carbon Mapper Spacecraft : thinsp Tanager-1 Instrument : thinsp Carbon Mapper Imaging Spectrometer Product Size : thinsp 3024 x 4032 pixels w x h Produced By : thinsp JPL Full-Res TIFF : thinsp PIA26093.tif 28.44 MB Full-Res JPEG : thinsp PIA26093.jpg 1.501 MB Click on the image above to download a moderately sized image in JPEG format possibly reduced in size from original Original Caption Released with Image : Engineers and technicians prepare the Carbon Mapper imaging spectrometer , which will measure the greenhouse gases methane and carbon dioxide from space , for vibration testing at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in August 2023. This test is one of a series meant to ensure that the instrument can

  • PIA26092: Imaging Spectrometer Fully Integrated

    Updated: 2023-09-30 18:57:43
    PIA26092 : Imaging Spectrometer Fully Integrated Mission : thinsp Carbon Mapper Spacecraft : thinsp Tanager-1 Instrument : thinsp Carbon Mapper Imaging Spectrometer Product Size : thinsp 3024 x 3141 pixels w x h Produced By : thinsp JPL Full-Res TIFF : thinsp PIA26092.tif 22.2 MB Full-Res JPEG : thinsp PIA26092.jpg 961 kB Click on the image above to download a moderately sized image in JPEG format possibly reduced in size from original Original Caption Released with Image : The Carbon Mapper imaging spectrometer , which will measure the greenhouse gases methane and carbon dioxide from space , sits at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in August 2023, before its September shipment to Planet Labs PBC in San Francisco . The instrument will be integrated into a Tanager .

  • PIA25869: JPL Engineers Work on Carbon Mapper Imaging Spectrometer

    Updated: 2023-09-30 18:57:43
    PIA25869 : JPL Engineers Work on Carbon Mapper Imaging Spectrometer Mission : thinsp Carbon Mapper Coalition Instrument : thinsp Carbon Mapper Imaging Spectrometer Product Size : thinsp 8256 x 5504 pixels w x h Produced By : thinsp JPL Full-Res TIFF : thinsp PIA25869.tif 110.5 MB Full-Res JPEG : thinsp PIA25869.jpg 6.681 MB Click on the image above to download a moderately sized image in JPEG format possibly reduced in size from original Original Caption Released with Image : Engineers in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in April 2023 examine the imaging spectrometer that will ride aboard the first of two satellites to be launched by the Carbon Mapper Coalition . The instrument will help researchers detect emissions of carbon dioxide and methane from

  • PIA25139: Psyche Undergoes Vibration Testing

    Updated: 2023-09-30 18:57:43
    PIA25139 : Psyche Undergoes Vibration Testing Target Name : thinsp Asteroid Mission : thinsp Psyche Spacecraft : thinsp Psyche Product Size : thinsp 5504 x 8256 pixels w x h Produced By : thinsp JPL Full-Res TIFF : thinsp PIA25139.tif 126.3 MB Full-Res JPEG : thinsp PIA25139.jpg 5.361 MB Click on the image above to download a moderately sized image in JPEG format possibly reduced in size from original Original Caption Released with Image : An engineer works on NASA's Psyche spacecraft amid vibration testing at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on March 8, 2022. The test is among a series intended to ensure the spacecraft can withstand the jostling and high decibels of launch as well as the harsh environment of deep . space Slated for an October 2023 launch ,

  • PIA25138: Psyche Spacecraft en Route to the Asteroid Belt (Artist's Concept)

    Updated: 2023-09-30 18:57:43
    PIA25138 : Psyche Spacecraft en Route to the Asteroid Belt Artist's Concept Target Name : thinsp Asteroid Mission : thinsp Psyche Spacecraft : thinsp Psyche Product Size : thinsp 2365 x 1327 pixels w x h Produced By : thinsp Arizona State University Full-Res TIFF : thinsp PIA25138.tif 6.396 MB Full-Res JPEG : thinsp PIA25138.jpg 314.1 kB Click on the image above to download a moderately sized image in JPEG format possibly reduced in size from original Original Caption Released with Image : This artist's concept depicts NASA's Psyche spacecraft with its large solar arrays fully deployed and one of its four Hall-effect thrusters firing visible via its blue glow atop the spacecraft's . body Slated for an October 2023 launch , Psyche is scheduled to reach its destination a mysterious asteroid

  • PIA24930: Psyche's Mission Plan

    Updated: 2023-09-30 18:57:43
     nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; Mission:  Psyche Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

  • Brilliant Harvest Moon, the last supermoon of 2023, wows stargazers around the world (photos)

    Updated: 2023-09-30 14:23:19
    The final supermoon of the year, the Harvest Moon of September, gave skywatchers the final lunar thrill of the season.

  • New York City is sinking — and it's not just because of the flooding

    Updated: 2023-09-30 10:00:01
    Between 2016 and 2023, researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) used interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR), a space-based sensing technique, to 3D map the vertical land motion of the ground beneath New York. They found that during this period, the city sinks an average of 0.06 inches (1.6 millimeters) per year.

  • Watch the glow of the Milky Way and ghostly zodiacal light during the 2023 Perseid meteor shower (video)

    Updated: 2023-09-30 10:00:00
    The new moon glows in the sky above Turkey with the reflected light of Earth shining upon it in gorgeous photos by astrophotographer Miguel Claro.

  • Lasers cut through star trails in beautiful photo from the European Southern Observatory

    Updated: 2023-09-30 00:57:50
    A new long exposure image from the European Southern Observatory captures stars as they travel overhead, creating what is known as star trails with the help of bright laser guide star beams.

  • Celebrate 'Star Wars Rebels' 10th anniversary with Marvel Comics

    Updated: 2023-09-30 00:00:03
    Marvel Comics is releasing a set of special "Star Wars Rebels" 10th anniversary comic book covers that celebrate the characters that now appear in the live action series "Ahsoka."

  • NASA to extend New Horizons mission through late 2020s

    Updated: 2023-09-29 22:39:23
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  • Watch a dust devil swirl across Mars in this video from NASA's Perseverance rover

    Updated: 2023-09-29 21:00:18
    NASA's Perseverance rover captured video of a dust devil moving along the western rim of Mars' Jezero Crater on Aug. 30, 2023.

  • See green comet Nishimura's tail get whipped away by powerful solar storm as it slingshots around the sun (video)

    Updated: 2023-09-29 20:00:00
    After surviving its closest approach to the sun, Comet Nishimura was buffeted by a possible coronal mass ejection that briefly blew its tail away. The rare event was captured by a NASA spacecraft.

  • Time-lapse video shows a supernova's aftermath ballooning into space

    Updated: 2023-09-29 19:00:01
    Two decades of Hubble Space Telescope data reveal the stunning threads of a dead star's leftovers.

  • Space Development Agency funds demonstration of satellite laser links in ‘degraded’ environments

    Updated: 2023-09-29 18:46:03
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  • These photos of Stoke Space's 'Hopper' reusuable rocket test are just amazing

    Updated: 2023-09-29 18:00:58
    New photos from Stoke Space show the successful test flight, Hopper2, bringing the company one step closer toward developing fully reusable rockets.

  • Falcon 9 beats the weather to launch 22 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral

    Updated: 2023-09-29 15:40:09
    A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off Friday night on another mission to deliver satellites into orbit for SpaceX's Starlink internet service. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station occurred at 10:00 p.m. EDT Sept. 29 (0200 UTC on Sept. 30) after a delay for weather.

  • China to attempt lunar far side sample return in 2024

    Updated: 2023-09-29 08:45:43
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  • NASA delays Psyche launch a week

    Updated: 2023-09-29 02:50:16
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  • Ispace revises design of lunar lander for NASA CLPS mission

    Updated: 2023-09-29 00:12:52
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  • Astroscale inspector satellite ready for launch

    Updated: 2023-09-28 20:41:58
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  • Launch of NASA’s Psyche asteroid mission slips a week due to spacecraft issue

    Updated: 2023-09-28 18:07:13
    The launch of NASA's Psyche asteroid mission is being delayed a week due to allow "verifications" of parameters used by the spacecraft's thrusters, the space agency confirmed Thursday. Liftoff on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket is now scheduled for no earlier than Oct. 12.

  • Mynaric optical terminals selected for Northrop Grumman satellites pass key tests

    Updated: 2023-09-28 11:50:01
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  • FAA closes New Shepard mishap investigation

    Updated: 2023-09-27 23:00:55
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  • X-Bow to demonstrate additive manufacturing of solid rocket motors for U.S. Air Force

    Updated: 2023-09-27 22:33:09
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  • Rogue Space Systems gets US Air Force funds to advance in-orbit servicing tech

    Updated: 2023-09-27 22:10:01
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  • Soyuz lands safely in Kazakhstan to end record-breaking mission; Rubio: “It’s good to be home”

    Updated: 2023-09-27 13:22:42
    NASA astronaut Frank Rubio and two Russian cosmonauts undocked from the International Space Station and plunged back to Earth early Wednesday, landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan to close out an unexpected yearlong stay in space, the longest single flight in U.S. space history.

  • Cybersecurity firm Xage gets $17 million contract to protect Space Force networks

    Updated: 2023-09-27 10:00:00
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  • China narrows field for low-cost space station cargo missions

    Updated: 2023-09-27 09:10:33
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  • Live coverage: Space station crew return to Earth after 371-day mission

    Updated: 2023-09-27 00:46:34
    Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut return to Earth after an extended tour of duty aboard the International Space Station. The landing marked the end of a 370-day-21-hour-22-minute-long mission. It was the third longest human space flight in history and the longest by a U.S. astronaut.

  • Rapid response Victus Nox launch success open new possibilities for Space Force, commercial space industry

    Updated: 2023-09-27 00:33:07
    Nearly two weeks after the successful launch of a payload for the U.S. Space Force’s Space System Command, leaders from the branch along with launch provider, Firefly Aerospace, and satellite manufacturer, Millennium Space Systems, touted the importance and details of the mission during a press briefing on Tuesday.

  • Space Force selects university partner to evaluate classified ground systems software

    Updated: 2023-09-27 00:03:16
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  • Soyuz returns ISS crew after record-setting stay

    Updated: 2023-09-27 00:02:21
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  • NASA offers choice of contract type for ISS deorbit vehicle

    Updated: 2023-09-26 23:55:56
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  • After setting new record for responsive launch, Space Force eyes next challenge

    Updated: 2023-09-26 22:27:28
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  • Two cosmonauts, NASA astronaut head for Wednesday landing after yearlong mission

    Updated: 2023-09-26 20:13:48
    Outgoing space station commander Sergei Prokopyev and his two Soyuz crewmates, co-pilot Dmitri Petelin and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, packed up Tuesday for a fiery plunge back to Earth early Wednesday to close out a yearlong stay in orbit, the longest flight in U.S. space history.

  • How NASA Is Protecting Its Precious Asteroid Bennu Sample

    Updated: 2023-09-26 11:00:00
    The OSIRIS-REx capsule containing a "treasure trove" of space rocks has now arrived at Johnson Space Center, where scientists will gingerly unpack it.

  • Sierra Space raises $290 million

    Updated: 2023-09-26 00:00:00
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  • SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Starlink satellites from California

    Updated: 2023-09-25 01:15:31
    SpaceX launched its 42nd Starlink delivery mission of the year with a Falcon 9 lifting off from the West Coast carrying a batch of 21 satellites at 1:48 a.m. PDT (4:48 a.m. EDT / 0848 UTC) Monday morning.

  • Voyager Sending Back TERRIFYING Data To Earth!

    Updated: 2023-09-24 22:06:29
    Voyager Sending Back TERRIFYING Data To Earth! At the moment, the Voyager 1 spacecraft is on a dange

  • OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule safely lands in Utah

    Updated: 2023-09-24 17:58:24
    A saucer-shaped capsule carrying asteroid fragments that may hold clues about the birth of the solar system slammed into Earth's atmosphere Sunday and descended to an on-target parachute-assisted touchdown in Utah in the final chapter of a dramatic seven-year, four-billion-mile voyage.

  • Interview: Talking asteroid sample return

    Updated: 2023-09-24 04:59:58
    Spaceflight Now's Will Robinson-Smith speaks with some of the key figures at Lockheed Martin, who helped bring the OSIRIS-REx mission to life and will continue working with both the spacecraft and the asteroid samples after the return capsule lands in the Utah desert.

  • As it happened: Seven-year asteroid adventure ends with sample return

    Updated: 2023-09-24 04:45:28
    Live coverage as a capsule lands in the U.S. Army test range in the Utah desert carrying samples from the surface of asteroid Bennu. NASA's OSIRIS-REx (short for the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has been on a seven-year journey to Bennu and back. If all goes according to plan the capsule will land under a parachute at about 10:55 a.m. EDT (1455 UTC) on Sunday.

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  • PIA25837: Lunar Trailblazer Spacecraft Nears Completion

    Updated: 2023-08-16 22:27:14
    PIA25837 : Lunar Trailblazer Spacecraft Nears Completion Mission : thinsp Lunar Trailblazer Instrument : thinsp Lunar Thermal Mapper LTM Product Size : thinsp 2953 x 1661 pixels w x h Produced By : thinsp Lockheed Martin Space Full-Res TIFF : thinsp PIA25837.tif 14.55 MB Full-Res JPEG : thinsp PIA25837.jpg 707.4 kB Click on the image above to download a moderately sized image in JPEG format possibly reduced in size from original Original Caption Released with Image : NASA's Lunar Trailblazer sits in a clean room at Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton , Colorado , shortly after being integrated with its second and final science instrument in June 2023. Called the Lunar Thermal Mapper LTM the instrument is visible as a black rectangular box in the upper right of the spacecraft's body . Green

  • PIA25836: NASA's Lunar Trailblazer Gets a Taste of Space

    Updated: 2023-08-16 22:27:05
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  • PIA25958: Powerful Antenna Installed On Europa Clipper

    Updated: 2023-08-16 04:02:54
    PIA25958 : Powerful Antenna Installed On Europa Clipper Target Name : thinsp Europa Mission : thinsp Europa Clipper Spacecraft : thinsp Europa Clipper Product Size : thinsp 7959 x 5306 pixels w x h Produced By : thinsp JPL Full-Res TIFF : thinsp PIA25958.tif 100.3 MB Full-Res JPEG : thinsp PIA25958.jpg 5.174 MB Click on the image above to download a moderately sized image in JPEG format possibly reduced in size from original Original Caption Released with Image : NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft boasts its new 10-foot 3-meter high-gain antenna , after its Aug . 14, 2023, installation in High Bay 1 of the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California . The orbiter is being assembled in preparation for launch to Jupiter's moon Europa in October

  • PIA25957: Europa Clipper's High-Gain Antenna Installed

    Updated: 2023-08-15 20:01:35
    PIA25957 : Europa Clipper's High-Gain Antenna Installed Target Name : thinsp Europa Mission : thinsp Europa Clipper Spacecraft : thinsp Europa Clipper Product Size : thinsp 8272 x 6200 pixels w x h Produced By : thinsp JPL Full-Res TIFF : thinsp PIA25957.tif 122.1 MB Full-Res JPEG : thinsp PIA25957.jpg 4.813 MB Click on the image above to download a moderately sized image in JPEG format possibly reduced in size from original Original Caption Released with Image : Engineers and technicians install a 10-foot 3-meter high-gain antenna on NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft on Aug . 14, 2023. The orbiter is being assembled in the clean room of the High Bay 1 clean room of the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory , in preparation for launch to Jupiter's moon

  • PIA25956: Europa Clipper Gets Its High-Gain On

    Updated: 2023-08-15 20:01:35
    PIA25956 : Europa Clipper Gets Its High-Gain On Target Name : thinsp Europa Mission : thinsp Europa Clipper Spacecraft : thinsp Europa Clipper Product Size : thinsp 4215 x 5623 pixels w x h Produced By : thinsp JPL Full-Res TIFF : thinsp PIA25956.tif 55.95 MB Full-Res JPEG : thinsp PIA25956.jpg 2.381 MB Click on the image above to download a moderately sized image in JPEG format possibly reduced in size from original Original Caption Released with Image : Engineers and technicians use a crane to lift a 10-foot 3-meter high-gain antenna as they prepare to install it on NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft on Aug . 14, 2023. The orbiter is being assembled in the clean room of High Bay 1 at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in preparation for its launch to Jupiter's

  • PIA25778: PREFIRE Satellite Illustration

    Updated: 2023-08-15 03:58:50
    PIA25778 : PREFIRE Satellite Illustration Target Name : thinsp Earth Mission : thinsp Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment PREFIRE Spacecraft : thinsp CubeSat Product Size : thinsp 1920 x 1080 pixels w x h Produced By : thinsp JPL Full-Res TIFF : thinsp PIA25778.tif 3.12 MB Full-Res JPEG : thinsp PIA25778.jpg 92.14 kB Click on the image above to download a moderately sized image in JPEG format possibly reduced in size from original Original Caption Released with Image : The PREFIRE Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment mission will send two CubeSats shown as an artist's concept against an image of Earth from orbit into space to study how much heat the planet absorbs and emits from its polar regions , including the Arctic and . Antarctica Analysis of PREFIRE

  • PIA25826: Going Over the Footpad Test Data

    Updated: 2023-08-10 19:12:44
    PIA25826 : Going Over the Footpad Test Data Target Name : thinsp Mars Mission : thinsp Mars Sample Return MSR Product Size : thinsp 1920 x 1080 pixels w x h Produced By : thinsp JPL Full-Res TIFF : thinsp PIA25826.tif 4.761 MB Full-Res JPEG : thinsp PIA25826.jpg 161.3 kB Click on the image above to download a moderately sized image in JPEG format possibly reduced in size from original Original Caption Released with Image : Patrick DeGrosse and fellow engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory review data from a recent test of a full-size footpad for a future Mars . lander The 16-inch-diameter 40-centimeter-diameter footpad was plunged into a test bed filled with 10,000 pounds 4,536 kilograms of simulated Martian soil in order to see how deep it would sink too far , and the lander's

  • PIA25824: A Full-Size Footpad Test

    Updated: 2023-08-10 19:12:44
    PIA25824 : A Full-Size Footpad Test Target Name : thinsp Mars Mission : thinsp Mars Sample Return MSR Product Size : thinsp 1920 x 1080 pixels w x h Produced By : thinsp JPL Full-Res TIFF : thinsp PIA25824.tif 4.517 MB Full-Res JPEG : thinsp PIA25824.jpg 191.2 kB Click on the image above to download a moderately sized image in JPEG format possibly reduced in size from original Original Caption Released with Image : This setup is being used at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to test a 16-inch-diameter 40-centimeter-diameter footpad for a future Mars lander . The footpad was plunged into a test bed filled with 10,000 pounds 4,536 kilograms of simulated Martian soil in order to see how deep it would sink too far , and the lander's belly could scrape against the ground during touchdown ,

  • PIA25823: Setting Guardrails for Mars Lander Testing

    Updated: 2023-08-10 19:12:43
    PIA25823 : Setting Guardrails for Mars Lander Testing Target Name : thinsp Mars Mission : thinsp Mars Sample Return MSR Product Size : thinsp 1920 x 1080 pixels w x h Produced By : thinsp JPL Full-Res TIFF : thinsp PIA25823.tif 5.194 MB Full-Res JPEG : thinsp PIA25823.jpg 249.2 kB Click on the image above to download a moderately sized image in JPEG format possibly reduced in size from original Original Caption Released with Image : Morgan Montalvo , an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory , sets guardrails on the floor below a prototype of the lander being designed for the agency's Mars Sample Return campaign . These guardrails were used to test a scenario where the lander would stub a toe against a rock while touching down on . Mars The Sample Retrieval Lander , estimated to

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