Latest Mars Aircraft Prototype Flies
The first of three Prandtl-M prototype aircraft was air launched Aug. 16, 2019, from an Aerostat blimp at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California. Three different prototypes of varying size, two still in development, eventually will be air launched from a weather balloon at 100,000 feet to simulate the atmosphere on Mars. The validated Prandtl-M could give scientists options to fly sensors in the Martian atmosphere to collect weather and landing site information for future human exploration of Mars.
- Date
- 2019-08-16
- Photographer / author
- NASA/Lauren Hughes
- Collection
- AFRC
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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