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Description	English: Connecting Curiosity's Heat Shield and Back Shell At the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the "back shell powered descent vehicle" configuration, containing NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, is being placed on the spacecraft's heat shield. The heat shield and the spacecraft's back shell together form an encapsulating aeroshell that will protect the rover from the intense heat that will be generated as the flight system descends through the Martian atmosphere.
Date	24 November 2011
Source	http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/?ImageID=3666
Author	NASA/JPL-Caltech

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