A plan to fly an aircraft in the Martian atmosphere is one projects NASA has requested funding for in its budget. The flight was schedualed to originally take place in 2003, a hundred years after the Wright brothers' first historic flight but has recently been delayed. The plan is for the robot aircraft to be sent to Mars on a Ariane 5 rocket. It would enter the Martian atmosphere inside a heat shield which would then drop away. Parachutes would slow it down to allow large wings to unfold. It would fly over Mars' desert landscape for a few days.
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