Studying the Heat Shield's Seal
Jet Propulsion Laboratory https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ March 1, 2005
This image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity highlights the seal on the rover's protective heat shield. Engineers evaluated the performance of the protective shell's seal during a 36-sol investigation.
After viewing these images, engineers were pleased with how the seal performed.
This is an approximately true-color rendering of the scene acquired around 1:07 p.m. local solar time on Opportunity's sol 339 (Jan. 6, 2005) in an image mosaic using panoramic camera filters at wavelengths of 750, 530, and 430 nanometers.