Mastcam-Z

Instrument gallery

Instrument Gallery Photo 01  Members of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover Mastcam-Z team gathered for a photograph after their team meeting at Caltech in August, 2015.
Instrument Gallery Photo 02  Members of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover Mastcam-Z hardware development group ham it up in 3-D during testing of the ASU Mastcam-Z simulator system.
Instrument Gallery Photo 03  One of the Mastcam-Z flight filter wheels undergoing testing at Malin Space Science Systems in October, 2018.
Instrument Gallery Photo 04  Members of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover Mastcam-Z hardware development group work out the details for thermal vacuum testing of the Engineering Qualification Model camera at ASU in November, 2018.
Instrument Gallery Photo 05  Members of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover Mastcam-Z calibration group running tests of the Engineering Qualification Model camera at ASU in November, 2018.
Instrument Gallery Photo 06  Inside this special NASA flight hardware case, delivered from MSSS to JPL in April 2019, the Mastcam-Z Flight Model Digital Electronics Assembly waits to be installed inside the body of the Perseverance rover.
Instrument Gallery Photo 07  Mastcam-Z P.I. Jim Bell admires the view of one of the flight cameras being tested inside a thermal vacuum chamber at Malin Space Science Systems in April, 2019.
Instrument Gallery Photo 08  Technicians installing the Mastcam-Z Digital Electronics Assembly (DEA) into the body of the Mars 2020 mission’s Perseverance rover at JPL in April, 2019.
Instrument Gallery Photo 09  Members of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover Mastcam-Z calibration group gathered for calibration of the flight cameras at Malin Space Science Systems in May, 2019.
Instrument Gallery Photo 15  Members of the Mastcam-Z and JPL Mars 2020 Assembly, Test, and Launch Operations (ATLO) team gathered for a milestone moment in JPL’s Spacecraft Assembly Building on May 21, 2019: formal “delivery” of the cameras (packed inside the special flight hardware carrying boxes) to the rover!
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Instrument Gallery Photo 16  During the functional checkout required as part of delivery of the cameras to the rover at JPL, P.I. Jim Bell (right), Instrument Manager Mike Ravine (middle), and Deputy P.I. Justin Maki (left) pose for a clean room portrait taken with the left Mastcam-Z flight camera.
Instrument Gallery Photo 10  Members of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover Mastcam-Z calibration group in the clean room setting up the “GeoBoard” rock and standards target for imaging by the flight cameras at Malin Space Science Systems in May, 2019.
Instrument Gallery Photo 17  Close-up view of one of the Mastcam-Z flight cameras looking into a bright “integrating sphere” light source in the clean room at Malin Space Science Systems as part of the camera calibration activities in May, 2019.
Instrument Gallery Photo 13  A JPL technician carefully inspects one of the flight Mastcam-Z cameras after it was officially delivered from the team to the rover in May 2019.
Instrument Gallery Photo 11  Mastcam-Z lead systems engineer Mike Caplinger inspects the installation of the flight cameras in the thermal vacuum chamber at Malin Space Science Systems in May, 2019.
Instrument Gallery Photo 12  As part of the team’s calibration activities, the Mastcam-Z flight cameras took images of a bright “integrating sphere” light source in the clean room at Malin Space Science Systems in May, 2019.
Instrument Gallery Photo 14  Closeup of the Mastcam-Z primary and secondary color and grayscale calibration targets during a final hardware inspection at JPL in May, 2019.
Instrument Gallery Photo 18  Left and right Mastcam-Z camera heads after integration into the Perseverance rover’s remote sensing mast (RSM) at JPL, June 2019.
Instrument Gallery Photo 19  JPL technician Seth Harvey installs the left Mastcam-Z camera head during the June 2019 integration of the Mars 2020 mission’s Perseverance rover’s remote sensing mast (RSM).
Instrument Gallery Photo 20  JPL technician Seth Harvey installs the right Mastcam-Z camera head during the June, 2019 integration of the Perseverance rover’s remote sensing mast (RSM).
Instrument Gallery Photo 21  Members of the ASU Mastcam-Z downlink assessment team participating remotely from Tempe, Arizona in the calibration and testing of the flight cameras at JPL in July, 2019.
Instrument Gallery Photo 22  The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover Mastcam-Z instruments took images of a variety of near and far geometric calibration targets during camera testing in July, 2019.
Instrument Gallery Photo 23  The Mars 2020 mission’s Perseverance rover looks up to the camera while inside a larger thermal vacuum chamber at JPL in October, 2019. The Mastcam-Z cameras and all of the rover’s other systems were extensively tested under Mars-like conditions in this chamber.
Instrument Gallery Photo 24  JPL optical technician Jerry Mulder performs a final inspection and swab cleaning of the front optics of the Mars 2020 mission’s Perseverance rover Mastcam-Z cameras at the Kennedy Space Center in March, 2020.
Instrument Gallery Photo 25  Closeup of the Mastcam-Z primary and secondary color and grayscale calibration targets, mounted on the deck of the Mars 2020 mission’s Perseverance rover during final close-out testing at the Kennedy Space Center in April, 2020.