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Since 180 mph is still too fast to land safely, the aeroshell and parachute were jettisoned at about 1.3 miles above the ground and the rest of the descent was completed using rocket engines,' Chen continued. The supersonic parachute helped slow the spacecraft from around 1000 mph to 180 mph. 'The aeroshell protects the spacecraft from the intense heating and deceleration of atmospheric entry. This image of the backshell and supersonic parachute of NASA’s Perseverance rover was captured by the agency’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter during its 26th flight on Mars on April 19, 2022. Stepping back, it’s awe-inspiring, even for us, to think that these images were taken by the first helicopter ever flown on another planet.' The images are everything we could have hoped for – they’re high resolution, clear, and will provide a wealth of engineering data to pour over to help us continue to improve our ability to land on Mars. 'But this time, it’s our human made spacecraft that are the ‘aliens’ visiting another world and instead of fiction, it’s fact.

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'The aeroshell, which protected the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter during its plunge through the Martian atmosphere a little over a year ago, bears a pretty strong resemblance to the flying saucers of science fiction,' Al Chen, a Mars 2020 Perseverance lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), told FOX TV Stations Group. According to NASA, the agency’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter recently surveyed the parachute that helped the agency’s Perseverance rover land on Mars, along with a cone-shaped backshell that protected the rover in deep space during its descent toward the Martian surface on February 18.

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