From windswept craters to frigid ice caps, explore Martian landscapes through the eyes of NASA’s orbiters, probes and rovers ...

“Spread out and covered in dust, only about a third of the orange-and-white parachute - at 70.5 feet (21.5 meters) wide, it ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — 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.

Mars has long posed a challenge to landers because ... But the red planet’s atmosphere is also too thin to rely on parachutes alone to slow down and create a safe landing. For the deployment ...

Perseverance’s parachute and backshell on the surface of Jezero Crater as photographed by NASA’s ... [+] Ingenuity Mars Helicopter on April 19, 2022. Remember the nail-biting “seven minutes ...

Understanding how parachutes behave in different atmospheric conditions, such as those found on Mars, is essential for the successful deployment of landing systems for spacecraft. Recent studies ...

In 2022, Ingenuity captured haunting images of debris on Mars’s dusty surface. “It exudes otherworldly, doesn’t it?” said Ian Clark, Perseverance’s parachute system engineer, in The New ...

and landing a large mass on Mars is tricky because the thin atmosphere doesn’t provide much resistance for parachutes. One approach NASA is considering for the landing portion of the mission is ...

Mars Sample Retrieval Lander Concept Illustration ... which would use a heat shield and parachute for the initial descent and then employ retrorockets to lower the vehicle to the surface.