Mars Science Laboratory
3 This 4.5 m diameter 70° sphere-cone configuration will be NASA's largest capsule to enter the Mars atmosphere (or any planetary atmosphere for that matter).
On Heatshield Shapes for Mars Entry CapsulesThe Mars diameter was 6.4 arcsec. We positioned the slit (of 6 arcsec length and 1.1 arcsec width) to- ward the northern hemisphere in order to include the. On February 2-3, 2001, we used the TEXES high-resolution mid-IR ...The smallness of the vehicle (33 tons maximum according to our calculation) allows the use of rigid 70° cone heat shields, provided that the diameter of the ... SMALL VEHICLES FOR A ROBUST MISSION TO MARS... mm in diameter for 2.5 mm thickness (Figure 3-7, page 119). Samples must be thin enough to allow to quantify the decay of the irradiated ...
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