I'II take the umbrella.

EB If you fire the 'chute too early, the parachute itself could fail.

UE Parachute. We have to open a parachute just seconds before, I would say, impact.

We have to open a parachute just seconds before, I would say, impact.

Whose umbrella is this?

Is this your umbrella?

I'll take this umbrella.

Hey, leave me the umbrella

You lend an umbrella

If you don't get an opening shock, you don't get a parachute you've got a whole new problem set.

A parachute opens up to slow it down.

Video Okay, we have parachute aligned.

The fabric and the stitching could just pull apart.

We separate from the lander going 125 miles an hour at roughly a kilometer above the surface of Mars

It's not the umbrella!

Would you move my umbrella?

I was interested, and my canopy researcher colleagues have been interested in the dynamics of the canopy plants that live in the forest.

And then you wait for the opening shock for your parachute to open.

And so we're trying to disseminate information about the importance of the canopy, the beauty of the canopy, the necessity of intact canopies, to people outside of academia.

That umbrella was my Iast string of hope.

That umbrellas was my Iast string of hope.

Nalini Nadkarni on conserving the canopy

We consult to the media about canopy questions we have a canopy newsletter we have an email LISTSERV.

We consult to the media about canopy questions we have a canopy newsletter we have an email LlSTSERV.

And so we're trying to disseminate information about the importance of the canopy, the beauty of the canopy, the necessity of intact canopies, to people outside of academia.

That's the prototype of the parachute. I've now had them custom make one, the only one of its kind in the world.

Albert II died on impact after a parachute failure.

You can just see them there, popping open.

You shouldn't have lent him that umbrella.

We brought musicians to the canopy, and they made their music and it's fantastic music.

Typically on ultralight installations the rocket is mounted on the parachute container.

And I brought a little segment to give you of Duke Brady's Canopy Rap.

And then you put on your reserve, and then you put on your heavy rucksack.

Hold your tongue and hold that lantern higher, or I'll bash you with this umbrella.

Luckily, the canopy broke her fall. Nothing but a sprained wrist.

EB Now the spacecraft actually has to decide when it's going to get rid of its parachute.

There is this window of opportunity within which we can deploy the parachute.

You saw in the video a parachute breaking.

Yesterday, the British landed someone here by parachute.

You saw in the video a parachute breaking. That would be a bad day, you know, if that happened, so we have to test, because we are deploying this parachute at supersonic speeds.

In The Dance Hall in Arles , the light which brings people together has gone, and a swarm of dim lamps have taken over.

And Dr. Terry Erwin, in 1983, called the canopy, the last biotic frontier.

And I'd like to just tell you one of our projects, which is the generation of Canopy Confluences.

To give you an idea of the size, you know, of that parachute relative to the people standing there.

And then the landing, as we have seen, arriving on this side of the channel, is through a parachute.