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What might go wrong when a spacecraft lands back from orbit, bearing not just the remains of 166 people but the hopes of ...
Engineers hinted they had hidden a code in the parachute that landed the Perseverance rover. Within hours, puzzle enthusiasts cracked it.
When NASA’s Perseverance rover returned the first-ever video of a descent through the Martian atmosphere and landing on the red planet, a secret code was revealed in the parachute. Meet Ian ...
In 2020, NASA will launch a rover to Mars armed with drills to explore for past habitable conditions and microbial life. But to land safely, it will need to deploy a parachute that will slow the ...
In this interactive, you take on the role of the lead engineer in charge of designing the Mars Exploration Rovers' parachutes. Consider trade-offs in the parachute's stability, strength, and ...
The largest-ever parachute bound for Mars, which will land Europe's ExoMars rover on the surface of the Red Planet in 2021, passed the first in a series of tests in Sweden.
The huge parachute used by NASA’s Perseverance rover to land on Mars contained a secret message, thanks to a puzzle lover on the spacecraft team.
Europe’s Mars lander parachute problems may be worse than thought ESA has yet to conduct a successful test of the parachutes at supersonic speeds.
The parachute is being designed to slow down NASA's Mars 2020 rover when it begins its descent through the Martian atmosphere at more than 12,000 mph (19,300 kilometers per hour).
This high-definition NASA image shows the final supersonic parachute test for NASA's 2020 Mars rover. NASA tested the parachute during a Sept. 7, 2018 suborbital rocket launch to mimic Mars ...
The largest-ever parachute bound for Mars, which will land Europe's ExoMars rover on the surface of the Red Planet in 2021, passed the first in a series of tests in Sweden.
The huge parachute used by NASA’s Perseverance rover to land on Mars contained a secret message, thanks to a puzzle lover on the spacecraft team.