A sounding rocket test spacecraft and its parachute (top right) after touching down in the White Sands Missile Range. The two JPL camera lenses are visible in this end of the spacecraft. JPL s Andrew Johnson (top left), who developed the complex algorithms used to recognize terrain features and to locate spacecraft descent images on a digital reference map, surveys the exact touchdown location of the test spacecraft. Andrew Johnson (bottom left) and Paolo Bellutta in a U.S. Army helicopter just before it lifts off from the recovery site.
