Researchers at the Dipartimento di Scienza e Ingegneria dello Spazio (DISIS) at the Università degli Studi di Napoli in Italy have recently used FLUENT software to simulate the entry of a planetary module into the atmosphere surrounding Mars. The recent interest in Mars missions has encouraged engineers to use shock tunnels, plasmatrons, or high enthalpy arc facilities to carry out research studies on Earth in similar conditions.

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