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The "Seeing
2020" live video feed allows the public to watch engineers and technicians
assemble and test NASA's next Mars rover in a clean room at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Ken
Kremer -- SpaceUpClose.com &
RocketSTEM – 10 June 2019
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Thanks to a newly installed webcam, you can watch as NASA builds its next rover launching to the Red Planet - the Mars 2020 rover - via a live, bird's-eye view newly offered to the public direct from clean room assembly facility at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
“You can watch as JPL engineers and technicians assemble and test the rover before it embarks next year on one of the most technologically challenging interplanetary missions ever designed,” says NASA.
The webcam is named "Seeing 2020" and shows the construction of the Mars 2020 rover from a vantage point above the clean room - minus any audio.
Continuous live video of rover construction is available at:
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Thanks to a newly installed webcam, you can watch as NASA builds its next rover launching to the Red Planet - the Mars 2020 rover - via a live, bird's-eye view newly offered to the public direct from clean room assembly facility at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
“You can watch as JPL engineers and technicians assemble and test the rover before it embarks next year on one of the most technologically challenging interplanetary missions ever designed,” says NASA.
The webcam is named "Seeing 2020" and shows the construction of the Mars 2020 rover from a vantage point above the clean room - minus any audio.
Continuous live video of rover construction is available at:
The feed is also available on YouTube with scheduled,
moderated chats at:
"There is so much happening and changing in
the clean room, I come here every opportunity I get," said Mars 2020
project manager John McNamee of JPL, in a statement.
"It is great that we can share this part of our journey to the Red Planet with the public anytime they want."
Mars 2020 rover is being built in the High Bay 1 where the work day starts at 8 a.m. PDT (11 a.m. EDT) Mon.-Fri and will continue for many months before it is shipped to the Kennedy Space Center for final assembly and testing.
The other main components comprising the back shell, descent stage and cruise stage have already been assembled and tested.
"It is great that we can share this part of our journey to the Red Planet with the public anytime they want."
Mars 2020 rover is being built in the High Bay 1 where the work day starts at 8 a.m. PDT (11 a.m. EDT) Mon.-Fri and will continue for many months before it is shipped to the Kennedy Space Center for final assembly and testing.
The other main components comprising the back shell, descent stage and cruise stage have already been assembled and tested.
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Members of the public
who want to send their name to Mars on NASA's next rover mission to the Red
Planet (Mars 2020) can get a souvenir boarding pass and their names etched on
microchips to be affixed to the rover. Credits:
NASA/JPL-Caltech
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And don’t forget that NASA is inviting the
public to send their name along for the journey that begins with blastoff of
the ‘2020 Rover’ in July 2020
From now until Sept. 30, you can send your name to Mars by adding it to a chip to be loaded on board for the journey.
You can sign up and obtain a souvenir boarding pass to Mars here:
From now until Sept. 30, you can send your name to Mars by adding it to a chip to be loaded on board for the journey.
You can sign up and obtain a souvenir boarding pass to Mars here:
Over 7.0 million people have already signed
up to place their names on the chips as of today, June 10.
I was fortunate to visit with Curiosity in the KSC clean room back in 2011, 3 weeks before liftoff. A memory I’ll always cherish !
The 1 ton rover (2,300 pounds, 1,000 kilograms)
is nearly a copy of the NASA’s Curiosity Mars Science Lab rover still operating
on Mars - but with a completely new suite of science instruments and cameras.
It is being targeted to touch down at Jezero Crater in 2021.
Mars 2020 will search for signs of past microbial life, characterize the planet's climate and geology, collect samples for future return to Earth, and pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet.
Watch for Ken’s continuing onsite coverage of NASA, SpaceX, ULA, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and more space and mission reports direct from the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida and Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia.
Stay tuned here for Ken's continuing Earth and Planetary science and human spaceflight news: www.kenkremer.com –www.spaceupclose.com – twitter @ken_kremer – email: ken at kenkremer.com
Dr. Kremer is a research scientist and journalist based in the KSC area, active in outreach and interviewed regularly on TV and radio about space topics.
I was fortunate to visit with Curiosity in the KSC clean room back in 2011, 3 weeks before liftoff. A memory I’ll always cherish !
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Dr. Ken Kremer/Space UpClose in the KSC clean
room with Curiosity in 2011. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com
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It is being targeted to touch down at Jezero Crater in 2021.
Mars 2020 will search for signs of past microbial life, characterize the planet's climate and geology, collect samples for future return to Earth, and pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet.
Watch for Ken’s continuing onsite coverage of NASA, SpaceX, ULA, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and more space and mission reports direct from the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida and Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia.
Stay tuned here for Ken's continuing Earth and Planetary science and human spaceflight news: www.kenkremer.com –www.spaceupclose.com – twitter @ken_kremer – email: ken at kenkremer.com
Dr. Kremer is a research scientist and journalist based in the KSC area, active in outreach and interviewed regularly on TV and radio about space topics.
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