News | September 22, 2015 09:36 AM EDT

NASA Hopes Students Can Help It 'Drag' Science Payloads Onto The Surface Of Mars - Tech Times

NASA is looking for "kind of a drag" technology by inviting college students around the world to contribute to future Mars missions by coming up with ideas for safely landing heavy payloads on the red planet.

The challenge, the space agency says, is to slow a significantly heavy vehicle as it plummets through the thin Martian atmosphere on its way to a safe landing on the planet's surface.

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