Posted by John Nichols on February 02, 2005 at 21:54:58 from 165.91.196.13 user Mcneacail.
In Reply to: Re: books posted by John Nichols on February 02, 2005 at 21:48:40:
Think I might buy one of these to hide behind as I read the posts on the board.
Parts of the aeroshell
The aeroshell is made of two principle parts:
the heat shield (flat, brownish half)
the backshell (large, white-painted, cone-shaped half)
The heat shield protects the lander and rover from the intense heat from entry into the Martian atmosphere and aerodynamically acts as the first "brake" for the spacecraft.
The backshell carries the parachute and several components used during later stages of entry, descent, and landing, including:
Also there were a whole flock of finch type birds eating the red berries on one of our plants this morning.
John