Hannah Goldberg, a NASA JPL engineer on the Mars Science Lab (MSL) field test team, checks out the MSL radar in the pod on NASA Dryden's F/A-18 aircraft.
Project: Mars Science LabED11-0184-16
Hannah Goldberg, a NASA JPL engineer on the Mars Science Lab (MSL) field test team, checks out the MSL radar in the pod on NASA Dryden’s F/A-18 aircraft.
NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center directly supported NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) MSL mission team preparations during the three years prior to the Curiosity rover’s landing by conducting flight validation of the MSL’s Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL) radar on a helicopter and on one of the Center’s F/A-18 aircraft.
June 2011
NASA photo / Carla Thomas