Sentences with phrase «surface of a parachute»

Imagery released on 21 October from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows the bright, reflective surface of a parachute, and 1 kilometer north of it, a dark patch on the ground where before there had been nothing.

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Hmm, so you're telling me that a «heat shield» that was made of «special plastic» (as NASA called it back in the day), which was nothing but epoxy smeared over a ss honey comb «protected» the astros barreling into the upper atmosphere at hypersonic 5 miles / sec, or well over 30 times the velocity of a jumbo - jet and thru temperatures *** as quoted by NASA *** that are «10 times hotter than the surface of the sun», and then they «braked» with only a parachute to a safe splashdown?

The mission plan was for Beagle 2 to make a controlled descent onto the surface of Mars using parachutes and airbags and then send a signal to Earth saying that it had arrived safely.

Another clue came from the now - frozen Huygens probe, which parachuted to the surface of Titan on January 14, 2005.

Curiosity's chauffeur carried the rover though space for eight months and — with the help of a heat shield, a parachute, and a rocket - powered platform — deposited the rover gently on the surface of Mars on August 6.

Traveling at 3.5 times the speed of sound, the saucer's decelerator will inflate, slowing the vehicle down, and then a parachute will deploy to carry it to the ocean's surface.

Next year, NASA will test plasma parachutes for spacecraft — a way to glide safely to the surface of Earth or Mars without huge heat shields

After parting ways with Cassini, the probe will drop into Titan's atmosphere, open a parachute, and float down to the surface, taking measurements every step of the way.

They designed this «sky - crane» — along with a beefed - up heat shield and parachute — to slow 3 tons of spacecraft from bullet speeds to a gentle stop on the surface in 7 minutes.

Astronomers hoped the Huygens probe would reveal a global ocean of methane when it parachuted to the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, on January 14, 2005.

The lander will deploy a parachute at a distance of 7.8 miles (12.6 kilometers) from the surface, then jettison its heat shield, flip over to face its thrusters toward the planet and finally fire them in short, coordinated bursts, touching down at 4:53 P.M. Pacific time (taking into account the 15 - minute communication lag between Mars and Earth).

In January 2015, NASA's high - resolution Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter found the Beagle 2 lander, its rear cover and possible signs of a parachute on the Martian surface.

It plowed through the Martian atmosphere, popped out a parachute and then vaulted to the surface in a cocoon of airbags.

On Jan. 14, 2005, the Huygens entry probe became the first spacecraft to land on a planetary surface in the outer solar system, carrying out various physical and chemical measurements of Titan's atmosphere and transmitting high - resolution images as it descended by parachute.

Students carry out two activities: they measure acceleration of a marble due to gravity and they explore the link between impact forces and surface area of a parachute.

We understand how frustrating it can be for us researchers to parachute into schools to collect data, then disappear for a year or more only to surface with a report that at best seems out of date and at worst seems out of touch.

These were obtained with the interplanetary spacecraft Venera 8 which landed on the surface of Venus on 22 July 1972 after a 55 - min parachute descent through the atmosphere.