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Setting Guardrails for Mars Lander Testing
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Morgan Montalvo, an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, sets guardrails on the floor below a prototype of the lander being designed for the agency's Mars Sample Return campaign. These guardrails were used to test a scenario where the lander would "stub a toe" against a rock while touching down on Mars. The Sample Retrieval Lander, estimated to weigh as much as 5,016 pounds (2,275 kilograms), would be the heaviest spacecraft ever to land on the Red Planet.
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Credit lineSetting Guardrails for Mars Lander Testing. NASA/JPL, 2023-08-10. Public domain. ID: PIA25823.
