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Watch the European Space Agency test its Mars rover parachute – Digital Trends

The European and Russian ExoMars rover is scheduled to travel to Mars in 2022, and agencies recently performed a high-altitude…

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Despite what you might imagine, the trickiest part of sending a rover to Mars isn’t the journey through space — it’s slowing down and landing once you arrive there. Mars’s thin atmosphere makes slowing using a parachute difficult, which is why Mars missions…

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