NASA tests 'flying saucer' device for future Mars landings

June 09, 2015 01:50

NASA launched a giant balloon Monday (June 8) carrying a kind of "flying saucer" that will test technologies for landing on Mars.

The aircraft is fitted with the largest parachute ever constructed.

After several days of weather-related delays, the helium balloon was launched from a military base in Hawaii and was to rise for about two hours.

It was the second test of the saucer-like device called the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator.

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