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Eric Becker watches as Nathan Sam, Robert “Red” Jensen and Justin Hall attach a Prandtl-M aircraft onto the Carbon Cub.
From left Eric Becker watches as Nathan Sam, Robert “Red” Jensen and Justin Hall attach a Prandtl-M aircraft onto the Carbon Cub aircraft that air launched it at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California.

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From left Eric Becker watches as Nathan Sam, Robert “Red” Jensen and Justin Hall attach a Prandtl-M aircraft onto the Carbon Cub aircraft that air launched it at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California. The aircraft is the second of three prototypes of varying sizes to provide scientists with options to fly sensors in the Martian atmosphere to collect weather and landing site information for future human exploration of Mars.

March 13. 2020
NASA Photo / Ken Ulbrich