richfororbit
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Great stuff, I hope there is something new from this. I had hoped the current mission would of eventually found something.
That is some pretty cool video captured there. It was nice the see that the parachute deployed well without any issues. I wounder how much pressure there were (kg/cm^2) on the parachute at it's maximum ?
The image of descent stage looks like it performed a soft landing! So there will be some more thing worth a visit by Perseverance
The image of descent stage looks like it performed a soft landing! So there will be some more thing worth a visit by Perseverance
The image of descent stage looks like it performed a soft landing! So there will be some more thing worth a visit by Perseverance
I thought the parachute open up in stages. To prevent it from ripped into pieces.
That is very strong material right there.
Thanks for the links. There are plenty of interesting information there. I would have guessed the dynamic pressure being 10 times higher but better that way. Also the parachute is much bigger than I expected.Source: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/mars-2020-parachute-a-go
The NASA paper about the ASPIRE tests: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20190028247/downloads/20190028247.pdf
What I misinterpreted as the descent stage is the rover itself ?I doubt that it was able to land any way of soft. It had no landing gear, it would have had to touchdown on the engines...