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Inspecting Mars Helicopter

Engineers in clean suits inspect small helicopter.
Photojournal: PIA23155
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Published: April 2, 2019
Historical Date: February 1, 2019

Members of the NASA Mars Helicopter team inspect the flight model (the actual vehicle going to the Red Planet), inside the Space Simulator, a 25-foot-wide (7.62-meter-wide) vacuum chamber at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, on Feb. 1, 2019.

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