In this picture from Sept. 28, 2019, engineers and technicians working on the assembly and testing of the Mars 2020 spacecraft look on as a crane lifts the rocket-powered descent stage away from the rover. They've just completed a successful separation test at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
NASA's Mars 2020 rover tests descent-stage separation
- PhysOrg
- 5. 10 2019 (21:32)