Timeline for Why didn't Mark Watney try to salvage a radio from previous presupply mission probes?
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| Mar 14, 2020 at 19:57 | comment | added | user62584 | Beyond initial deceleration from an orbital speed, parachutes are useless in the thin Martian atmosphere and cannot be used to land cargo safely as they do on Earth. Some other method of shock absorbtion or thrust against Martian gravity must be added. | |
| Mar 14, 2020 at 17:29 | comment | added | Richard C | The pre supply missions are unlikely to involve anything more then dropping of a set of supplies in a big cargo box. Much as NASA plans to when it send its first mission to Mars. These will be big relatively dumb supply boxes sent on a trajectory to reach mars, they will then be brought into orbit and then sent into a degradation orbit until they reach atmosphere. At this point they will fall and parachutes will catch them, much as the satellite that landed the mars rover did. | |
| Mar 14, 2020 at 13:55 | comment | added | neverendingqs | They were definitely within range of the Ares 3 presupply probes though | |
| Mar 14, 2020 at 11:49 | history | answered | user62584 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |