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NASA’s new flying saucer could help us land on Mars

29
Jun
2014

Landing the car-sized Curiosity rover on Mars was difficult enough, but what about when you want to go bigger? To test landing a larger payload on the Red Planet, NASA yesterday sent a flying saucer-like craft called the Low Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) 180,000 feet into the Earths atmosphere over Hawaii — and then dropped it. […]

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NASA readies Mars ‘flying saucer’ for risky hypersonic flight test

04
Jun
2014

The wispy atmosphere of Mars is 99 percent thinner than Earths — not great for slowing down space ships or metorites. NASAs testing a way to make it work, however, using a helium balloon, rockets and a Low Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) vehicle, which looks suspiciously like a UFO. The plan is to launch the […]

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