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Beginning just after the aeroshell is jettisoned at an altitude of about 5 miles, MARDI will acquire a series of wide-angle, color images of the landing site all the way down to the surface.

NASA Watch: July 2007 Archives 2007

Beginning just after the aeroshell is jettisoned at an altitude of about 5 miles, MARDI will acquire a series of wide-angle, color images of the landing site all the way down to the surface.

NASA Tries To Spin Bad News As If It Were Not Bad News - NASA Watch 2007

It would be launched from Earth - probably atop a Delta II rocket stack - and fly to Mars packaged in an "aeroshell" re-entry capsule.

The Register 2009

X-33 (the Venturestar version) was doomed to failure as an SSTO because of all the structural penalties they paid with side-by-side-tank/aeroshell concept that they adopted.

Would You Bring Back NGLT-or SLI? - NASA Watch 2009

MER could do no calibration of the cameras in cruise other than dark current, since they were all wrapped up in the dark inside the aeroshell.

NASA ESMD PAO Statement Regarding Release of LRO Imagery - NASA Watch 2009

Wearing hard hats and crouching in bunkers before every shot, Gavit and her team figured out which aeroshell shape could protect the instruments inside from a force of 60,000 G's.

The Search For Life 2008

First stop: the "aeroshell braking" department, the people who can make a spaceship that slows itself down by skimming along the Martian atmosphere.

Traveling Sharks 2008

Beginning just after the aeroshell is jettisoned at an altitude of about 5 miles, MARDI will acquire a series of wide-angle, color images of the landing site all the way down to the surface.

NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: July 2007 Archives 2007

Beginning just after the aeroshell is jettisoned at an altitude of about 5 miles, MARDI will acquire a series of wide-angle, color images of the landing site all the way down to the surface.

NASA Watch: Space Science News: July 2007 Archives 2007

Editor's note: Let's see Robert: the UK couldn't manage to land a simple aeroshell on Mars equipped with a simple robotic arm.

NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: January 2004 Archives 2004