Watch NASA Break to Speed ​​Record in This Mars Parachute Test

Watch NASA Break to Speed ​​Record in This Mars Parachute Test

Watch NASA Break to Speed ​​Record in This Mars Parachute Test







NASA is preparing technology for use in its Mars 2020 The Rover mission, which will land on the Red Planet in February 2021, and is breaking world records on the road.



	Landing on Mars It is notoriously challenging due to the planet's thin atmosphere, which hinders the deceleration of a spacecraft enough to land gently on its surface. In order to land on Mars, its heaviest vehicle yet, Mars had to redesign an existing landing parachute design, the same one that protected the Rover of curiosity - with even stronger materials, including the Kevlar that is traditionally found in bulletproof vests.

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This high-definition image from NASA shows the final test of supersonic parachutes for NASA's Mars 2020 vehicle. NASA tested the parachute during a suborbital rocket launch on September 7, 2018 to mimic the landing conditions of Mars.

            						    Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech 


		The agency he did his final test of his new parachute in September as part of his Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation Research Experiment (ASPIRE) project. The results are in and the parachute has been approved for the 2020 launch.

		"Like all our previous missions to Mars, we only have one parachute and it has to work," said John McNamee, Mars 2020 project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. he said in a statement. "The ASPIRE tests have shown in remarkable detail how our parachute will react when it first deploys in a supersonic flow above Mars, and let me tell you that it looks beautiful."

		Last month, the 180-pound parachute, plus a camera designed to see it unfurled, was launched in a sound rocket of NASA's Wallops flight facility in Virginia. The rocket took it to approximately 23 miles (37 kilometers) above the surface of the Earth, where the density of the atmosphere is as dense as 6 miles (10 km) above the surface of Mars, the height at which it should unfold. Parachute Mars 2020.

		During the test, the parachute fully deployed in just four tenths of a second, the fastest inflation of such a large parachute, according to NASA. That will mark the end of the parachute tests, but not the end of Mars 2020 preparations.





						


The second stage of the sounding rocket that launched the ASPIRE parachute test is separated from the payload on September 7, 2018.

            						    Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech 


		"We are all in helping to 2020 hit your landing 28 months from now, "said Ian Clark, technical leader of the JPL test, in the statement. You may not be able to fire rockets at the edge of space for a while, but when it comes to Mars, and when it comes to getting there and going down safely: there are always interesting challenges to work in here. "



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