Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator

NASA workers at JPL wearing clean room, white "bunny suits," prepare a large saucer-shaped test vehicle that will be used to land larger payloads on Mars.
April 9, 2014
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NASA workers at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, wearing clean room "bunny suits," prepare the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) test article for shipment later this month to Hawaii. LDSD will help land bigger space payloads on Mars or return them back to Earth.

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