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Sensors Collect Crucial Data on Mars Landings With Arrival of Perseverance
MEDLI2 Visible on Mars 2020 Heat Shield: The Mars 2020 spacecraft’s heat shield falls away as the aeroshell descends to Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. The orange cabling seen on the shield is part of a suite of sensors and electronics called MEDLI2, which collects data during the descent that will help engineers land future spacecraft on Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Download image ›
MEDLI2 was one of the crucial technologies onboard the rover’s protective aeroshell that helped document the entry, descent, and landing of the spacecraft.
“Tango Delta, touchdown confirmed, Perseverance safely on the surface of Mars, ready to begin seeking the signs of past life.” For more than six years, the Mars Entry, Descent, and Landing Instrumentation 2 (MEDLI2) team has been waiting to hear those words.
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NORFOLK, Va. (Tribune News Service) A puddle, melted into a chair. That’s how Henry Wright, a rover project manager at NASA Langley, described his condition after Thursday’s nail-biter touchdown of the Perseverance on Mars. The local research center was heavily involved in the final challenge of the rover’s 6½-month journey: Getting the complex, car-sized robot on the ground in one functioning piece. Known as EDL for entry, descent and landing it’s the most hazardous point of the mission, when the vehicle that’s carried the rover nearly 300 million miles transforms itself from a spacecraft into something more like a bullet, plunging toward the surface at 12,000 mph.
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