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Perseverance Field Team Sets up in Nevada Desert

A field team sets up equipment in the Nevada desert in February 2020 as part of a training session for scientists who will work with NASA's Perseverance Mars rover after it lands.
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Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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A field team sets up equipment in the Nevada desert in February 2020 as part of a training session for scientists who will work with NASA's Perseverance Mars rover after it lands. Cameras and instruments carried by the field team stood in for an actual rover; the scientists, based in offices around the world, sent commands for images and data, as they will with Perseverance.

For more information about the mission, go to https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/.