Crash-Landing Safely on Mars: New NASA Test” NASA is trying a different way to land on Mars – by crashing onto its surface! They’re testing a special landing idea called the Simplified High Impact Energy Landing Device (SHIELD) at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). This could help make landing on Mars cheaper in the future. Instead of using parachutes or rockets to slow down, SHIELD has a bendy base that can collapse like an accordion. This helps it absorb the landing impact. They tested a big model of this base on August 12, 2022. They dropped it from a tower that’s about as tall as a 90-foot building (27 meters) at JPL. They made it hit the ground even harder than it would on Mars by using a strong metal plate. And guess what? The design worked! Even after crashing at 110 miles per hour (177 kilometers per hour) into the metal plate, things inside the SHIELD model, like a smartphone, didn’t get broken. Picture credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/California Academy of Sciences.
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