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Home NASA’s Mars 2020 rover will use a landing system nearly identical to the 2012 landing of Curiosity (depicted in this artist’s concept) but with added precision from the Lander Vision System. (NASA/JPL-Caltech) NASA's Mars 2020 rover will use a landing system nearly identical to the 2012 landing of Curiosity (depicted in this artist's concept) but with added precision from the Lander Vision System. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

NASA’s Mars 2020 rover will use a landing system nearly identical to the 2012 landing of Curiosity (depicted in this artist’s concept) but with added precision from the Lander Vision System. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

NASA's Mars 2020 rover will use a landing system nearly identical to the 2012 landing of Curiosity (depicted in this artist's concept) but with added precision from the Lander Vision System. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

NASA’s Mars 2020 rover will use a landing system nearly identical to the 2012 landing of Curiosity (depicted in this artist’s concept) but with added precision from the Lander Vision System. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

A prototype of the Lander Vision System for NASA’s Mars 2020 mission was tested in this Dec. 9, 2014, flight of a Masten Space Systems “Xombie” vehicle at Mojave Air and Space Port in California. (NASA Photo/Tom Tschida)