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Hi, I’m Jon Olansen, I’m the Manager of The Morpheus Project at NASA

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where we’ve   put together an Integrated Lander prototype that we can fly here on earth to test different technologies that we want to use to go to Mars.

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Some of the ways that Morpheus benefits our future exploration of Mars, in the autonomous precision landing aspect,

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if you can imagine approaching a planetary surface, there are going to be different hazards that are on that surface.

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There’s going to be rocks and craters. The ALHAT Project, part of Morpheus

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is able to actually produce a suite of sensors that will scan the landing site and identify where those hazards are,

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select a safe landing site for the lander that is approaching the surface and then autonomously redesignate that vehicle to land in a safe spot.

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The liquid oxygen, liquid methane, propulsion capability, advances a different propellant component or combination that we can use not only to fly to Mars,