NASA's Mars machines continue to work in beautiful tandem as seen in this image, where the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE camera captured the changing conditions of the landing parachute that brought the Curiosity rover safely to the ground nine months ago in August 2012.
We've already seen lots of parts of Curiosity's mission from space. HiRISE has snapped incredible images of the rover's nail-biting descent, the scar marks left on the Martian surface from its ballast masses, and even its tracks on the ground as it explored habitable conditions in Mars' past.
By: Adam Mann, Edited by: Kadhim Shubber
Continue reading...Source: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-04/4/curiosity-parachute
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