New Picture Shows Curiosity’s Landing System In Pieces On Mars

New Picture Shows Curiosity’s Landing System In Pieces On Mars


NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter just snapped the scene of the crime: all the pieces of the Entry Descent Landing system that worked flawlessly together to safely put Curiosity on the surface of Mars.

The image was taken by MRO’s High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera, 24 hours after the landing.

You can see it all: the heat shield, the back shell, the parachute and finally the sky crane, which crashed hard after the umbilical cords were cut with guillotines fired by pyrotechnic devices.


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