English: PIA23919: Tubes for Mars

https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA23919

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7671

https://phys.org/news/2020-06-extraordinary-sample-gathering-nasa-perseverance-mars.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFyv8mtRPCA

Engineers and technicians working on the Mars 2020 Perseverance team insert 39 sample tubes into the belly of the rover. Each tube is sheathed in a gold-colored cylindrical enclosure to protect it from contamination. Perseverance rover will carry 43 sample tubes to Mars' Jezero Crater. The image was taken at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 20, 2020.

For more information about the mission, go to https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/.