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KSC-2011-4400
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Cape Canaveral, Fla. -- At the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians add weights (ejectable ballast mass) to the aeroshell, a component of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), in order to conduct a spin and balance test. The aeroshell consists of the backshell which carries the parachute and several components used during later stages of entry, descent and landing, and the spacecraft's heat shield.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-2011-4400. NASA/KSC, 2011-06-10. Public domain. ID: KSC-2011-4400.
