Nasa’s Curiosity rover parachute

World Wise Web by BBC

Mar 27, 20209:26Technology

Aerospace engineer Dr Anita Sengupta led the team that developed the supersonic parachute which helped land Nasa’s Curiosity rover on Mars in 2012. It’s still on the Red Planet today, and its main goal is to assess wheth...

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