I posted back in April about  NASA’s Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator program, which set up a very elaborate multi-part system to test a parachute for slowing probes going into the Martian atmosphere. Here is a follow-up video about the program:

In  part 2, JPL engineer Mike Meacham explains how an inflatable decelerator will help larger spacecraft land on Mars. The device will be tested at the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii in June, 2014.