nasa flight testing radar for new mars rover

[Guest scott fletcher]

Southern California’s high desert has been a stand-in for Mars for NASA technology testing many times over the years. So it was again as NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center and Jet Propulsion Laboratory flight-tested the next Mars rover’s landing radar, using an F/A-18 aircraft.

 

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/Features/F-18_flying_msl_radar.html