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Mars Parachute Testing in World Largest Wind Tunnel
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The parachute for NASA next mission to Mars passed flight-qualification testing in March and April 2009 inside the world largest wind tunnel, at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, to be launched in 2011 and land on Mars in 2012, will use the largest parachute ever built to fly on an extraterrestrial mission.
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Credit lineMars Parachute Testing in World Largest Wind Tunnel. NASA/JPL, 2009-04-22. Public domain. ID: PIA11995.
