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episode 110: Curiosity's Landing on Mars
This episode is a conversation with JPL‘s Anita Sengupta about Curiosity’s landing on Mars. We first discuss the landing process itself and then focus on various aspects of the landing, in particular, the parachute. Next we discuss the development and test of that parachute. We conclude the episode with a general discussion about Mars Science Lab, Curiosity and space flight in general.
- Anita Sengupta/a>
- Jet Propulsion Lab
- Mars Science Lab
- Curiosity
- Seven Minutes of Terror (Video)
- Viking
- Aeroshell
- Mars Exploration Rovers
- Monopropellant Rocket
- Hydrazine
- IMU
- Monte Carlo Method
- CFD
- Reynolds Number
- Mach Number
- NASA Glenn Supersonic Wind Tunnel
- Supersonic Wind Tunnel
- ETW Episode
- Methane
- SpaceX