See amazing footage of how NASA's preparing to land on Mars

Watch the parachute of a supersonic “flying saucer” disintegrate as Nasa tries to find new methods of landing heavy spacecraft on the red planet.

Nasa has successfully launched a rocket-powered, saucer-shaped test vehicle into near-space as it endeavors to find new methods of landing heavy spacecraft on Mars. Ian Clark, principal investigator of the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator, talks us through Nasa’s recent “flying saucer” test in Hawaii.