Wind Tunnel Testing Perseverance’s Parachute

an image of a test of the parachute that will allow Perseverance to land on Mars
May 18, 2020
CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech/Ames
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In this June 2017 photo, the supersonic parachute design that will land NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021, undergoes testing in a wind tunnel at NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley.