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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

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.

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