25 Space Facts That Will Both TERRIFY And AMAZE You
25 Space Facts That Will Both Terrify And Amaze You | List25
The Speed of Light
The Moon
Black Holes
Gamma Rays
Zero Gravity
Cold Welding
Alien Life
Rogue Planets
Travel Times
Extreme Temperatures
The Darkness
Magnetars
Musculoskeletal Atrophy
Venus
Dark Matter/Dark Energy
Background Radiation
The Expanding Sun
Hypernovae
Electromagnetic Vibrations
Everything Can Kill You
Time Dilation
Hypervelocity Stars
Solar Flares
Depressurization
The Big Crunch/Big Rip
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NASA Tests Ways to Crash Land on Mars
We’re testing a new way of landing on Mars… by crashing into its surface.
The Simplified High Impact Energy Landing Device (SHIELD) is a lander concept being tested at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). It could one day provide a new way for low-cost missions to land on Mars.
Rather than rely on parachutes or retrorockets, SHIELD would include a collapsible, accordion-like base to absorb the energy of a landing. A full-size prototype of the base was tested on Aug. 12, 2022. The prototype was hurled at the ground from the top of a nearly 90-foot-tall (27-meter-tall) drop tower at JPL. A steel plate ensured the impact was even harder than what would be experienced on Mars.
The design worked: After crushing against the steel plate at 110 mph (177 kph), several electronic components inside the SHIELD prototype, including a smartphone, survived the impact.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/California Academy of Sciences
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