It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a...UFO?
And while it may appear this way, the space agency says that’s not the case. recently surveyed the parachute that helped the agency’s Perseverance rover land on Mars, along with a cone-shaped backshell that protected the rover in deep space during its descent toward the Martian surface on February 18.
This image of Perseverance’s backshell and parachute was collected by NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter during its 26th flight on April 19, 2022. Images obtained during the flight may provide insight into the components’ performance during the rover’s"Every time we’re airborne, Ingenuity covers new ground and offers a perspective no previous planetary mission could achieve," Teddy Tzanetos, Ingenuity’s team lead at NASA’s JPL in Southern California, said.
"The aeroshell protects the spacecraft from the intense heating and deceleration of atmospheric entry. The supersonic parachute helped slow the spacecraft from around 1000 mph to 180 mph. Since 180 mph is still too fast to land safely, the aeroshell and parachute were jettisoned at about 1.3 miles above the ground and the rest of the descent was completed using rocket engines," Chen continued.
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