NASA's 'Flying Saucer' Readies for First Test Flight

Source - NASA Science News for June 2, 2014

To test a new technology for landing heavy payloads on Mars, NASA is about to drop a flying-saucer shaped vehicle from a helium balloon 120,000 ft above Earth's surface.

The complete article can be found here: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/02jun_saucer/