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Large Parachute for NASA Mars Science Laboratory
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The parachute for NASA Mars Science Laboratory mission opens to a diameter of nearly 16 meters 51 feet. This image shows a duplicate qualification-test parachute inside the world's largest wind tunnel, at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. The Mars Science Laboratory will be launched in 2011 for a landing on Mars in 2012. Its parachute is the largest ever built to fly on an extraterrestrial mission.
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Credit lineLarge Parachute for NASA Mars Science Laboratory. NASA/JPL, 2009-04-22. Public domain. ID: PIA11994.
