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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the fairing acoustic protection (FAP) system lining the inside of the Atlas V payload fairing for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission is in view as the fairing is lifted into a vertical position. The FAP protects the payload by dampening the sound created by the rocket during liftoff. The fairing has been uncovered, and preparations are under way to clean it to meet NASA's planetary protection requirements. At left is the other half of the fairing, still uncovered. The fairing will protect the spacecraft from the impact of aerodynamic pressure and heating during ascent. Although jettisoned once the spacecraft is outside the Earth's atmosphere, the fairing must be cleaned to the same exacting standards as the laboratory to avoid the possibility of contaminating it. MSL's components include a compact car-sized rover, Curiosity, which has 10 science instruments designed to search for evidence on whether Mars has had environments favorable to microbial life, including the chemical ingredients for life. The unique rover will use a laser to look inside rocks and release its gasses so that the rover’s spectrometer can analyze and send the data back to Earth. Launch of MSL aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is planned for Nov. 25 from Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/msl. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-2011-7259
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Description: Flyaround of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) on Flight Day 9 of the second servicing mission (HST SM-02). The telescope is backdropped by the Earth.
Subject Terms: STS-82, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE, EARTH OBSERVATIONS (FROM SPACE), DEPLOYMENT
Date Taken: 2/19/1997
Categories: Hubble Space Telescope
Interior_Exterior: Exterior
Ground_Orbit: On-orbit
Original: Film - 35MM CN
Preservation File Format: TIFF
STS-82
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hubble space telescope
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flight day
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sts 82 discovery
high resolution
ultra high resolution
hst sm 02
earth observations
tiff sts 82
earth
sts 82
space flight
satellite
Date
1997
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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