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Airplane Drop Tests - The Old Days:
Mission and System Engineer, George Powell (center), helps to load various microprobe models into a Cessna airplane in California City, California. These probes were dropped from an altitude of approximately 10,000 feet to simulate Mars atmospheric entry.
 
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