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By Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA
August 6, 2012
![[article image]](https://cacm.acm.org/system/assets/0000/8773/8612.jpl.nasa.rover_parachute_descent.large.jpg?1476779427&1344278894 "Rover and parachute Mars descent")
An image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the Curiosity rover still connected to its 51-foot-wide (almost 16 meter) parachute as it descended towards its landing site at Gale Crater.
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