NASA’s Supersonic Parachute Ready for 2020 Mars Mission

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NASA has completed three successful tests of the parachute that will lower its landing craft to the surface of Mars in 2020.

NASA’s ASPIRE project (Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation Research Experiment) was tasked with developing a parachute that could open extremely quickly, at very high speeds, in a very diffuse atmosphere.

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