Scientists have released a series of photos of Curiosity’s parachute over the course of five months.-- blowing in the cool Martian breezes on Gale Crater.

Curiosity's main parachute was the largest parachute ever used for a Mars landing. When it was fully deployed, the parachute measured 51 feet (15.5 meters) across.

The supersonic parachute that helped the NASA rover Curiosity land safely on Mars eight months ago has become part of an accidental science experiment. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped ...

Wind tunnel testing at Cleveland's NASA Glenn Research Center helps give planners of the upcoming Curiosity rover mission to Mars confidence that the rover's parachute will work properly.

Curiosity's parachute is the largest one of its kind ever constructed, coming in about 65 feet in diameter. The gap between the white and orange-hued sections prevented the chute from becoming ...

This is why Curiosity required such a large parachute to slow its fall towards the surface of Mars. Recently, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been taking some interesting photographs of the ...

You can see the suspension lines that still hold the chute to Curiosity's back shell, the bright shape in the upper half of the images. The parachute was the biggest ever used on another planet ...

Like more than 1,000 visitors to Mission Control Monday, Pioneer Aerospace President John Smith felt the anxiety during the “seven minutes of terror” beginning when the Curiosity entere… ...

Curiosity, parachute and heat shield (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech) However, JPL scientists later noticed that Orbiter had another stroke of luck.

NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, or Curiosity rover, is scheduled to land on the Red Planet on Aug. 5, 2012. Here's how the rover will touch down on the planet's surface.

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captures an amazing image of Curiosity's parachute in mid-flight. By Andrew Moseman Published: Aug 06, 2012 12:08 PM EDT.

Unlike past Mars missions, Curiosity will be lowered to the ground and set on its wheels by a slowly descending "sky crane" designed to unreel the lander like a lure on a fishing line.