What do you mean , justify parachutes ? Mars does have an atmosphere , even if it ' s thin , and we are using parachutes with all our current and foreseeable future up to first ITS landings missions to land there . Dragon v 2 i . e . Red Dragon is bigger and heavier than the Curiosity rover , and it parachutes will be used to assist with landing . And actually , I ' m finishing up my degree in aerospace engineering , so I ' m pretty sure I have at least a bit of a clue . I obviously don ' t know everything rocket science but your comment is super condescending . <| sep |> Foreigners and their obsession with our poop ! <| sep |> Or toradol shots <| sep |> Haha . only in gov figures . China also has a very low number of traffic deaths if you look at the gov stats .