https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/47c6b8c9-ee27-4a61-abf9-d782d8b17585 This 50-second video taken in June of 2011 shows a NASA F/A-18 stationed at Dryden Flight Research Center (now Armstrong) putting the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Mars Science Laboratory landing radar to the test during recent flights over Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert. With the test radar housed in a pod underneath its left wing, the F/A-18 made stair-step dives from 40,000 feet at angles of 40 to 90 degrees over Rogers Dry Lake to simulate what the radar will see during entry into the Martian atmosphere. For more information on Dryden's support of the Mars Science Laboratory, go here: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/news/FactSheets/FS-104-DFRC.html Mirrored from YouTube: https://youtu.be/d2ug2khApW0 Original channel: NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:33:26 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/ec5edb1e-3795-4978-be4f-c67e98fbc992.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/47c6b8c9-ee27-4a61-abf9-d782d8b17585 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.