Amazing - NASA Tests Ways to Crash Land on Mars

We're trying a better approach for arriving on Mars… by colliding with its surface. The Simplified High Impact Energy Landing Device (SHIELD) is a lander concept being tested at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). It might one day at some point give a better approach to minimal expense missions to arrive on Mars. Instead of depend on parachutes or retrorockets, Safeguard would incorporate a folding, accordion-like base to retain the energy of an arrival.