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Kind: captions Language: en 3 2 1 fire bad shoot catastrophic failure blew up little pieces of parachute all over and and just bag of Rags at the end of the tunnel parachute is uh it's a loss it's almost like you lost a friend or something you know Fallen comrade in the wind tunnel and it caught us by surprise we didn't expect that the team was devastated all right that basically kicked off a forensic test program to figure out why that parachute exploded so catastrophically and was this a threat to the Mars mission all they had was a grainy video of the failure they needed better data so we went out and we got 13 I believe maybe 14 cameras high resolution highspeed video all sorts of different angles you know if this thing happened again if something bad happened again we were going to catch it this time right initiate Drive start they resumed testing hoping for the worst two one ran the first test parachute opened up just as you would wanted to and we're disappointed good shoot we test again one good shoot again good shoot again and again and we're like well jeez if we don't see this problem again it's going to be even worse it be better to capture it in high resolution so we can understand what was going on rather than just have this oneoff occurrence failure did not come easily it took six more tries 3 2 1 everyone stand by to bring down tunnel feet we were all really happy all of a sudden now the parachute exploded but we were even happier because all the camera footage that we had put in place caught the Smoking Gun what they had captured was an inversion it occurs when the edge of one side of the parachute slips through the lines on the opposite side a pocket of fabric catches air and inflates pulling the parachute inside out and tearing it apart
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