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KSC-2011-4517
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Cape Canaveral, Fla. -- At the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians prepare to separate the two components of the aeroshell, an element of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), after testing. The aeroshell consists of the spacecraft's heat shield and the backshell which carries the parachute and several components used during later stages of entry, descent and landing.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-2011-4517. NASA/KSC, 2011-06-14. Public domain. ID: KSC-2011-4517.
