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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