Latest Mars Aircraft Prototype Flies

From left Eric Becker watches as Nathan Sam, Robert 'Red' Jensen and Justin Hall attach a Prandtl-M aircraft onto the Carbon Cub aircraft that air launched it at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in California. The aircraft is the second of three prototypes of varying sizes to provide scientists with options to fly sensors in the Martian atmosphere to collect weather and landing site information for future human exploration of Mars.

Date

2020-03-13

Photographer / author

NASA/Ken Ulbrich

Collection

AFRC

Archive

NASA Image and Video Library

Type

photograph

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