Abstract: The European Space Agency recently flew an entry, descent, and landing demonstrator module called Schiaparelli that entered the atmosphere of Mars on the 19th of October, 2016. The instrumentation suite included heatshield and backshell pressure transducers and thermocouples (known as AMELIA – Atmospheric Mars Entry and Landing Investigations and Analysis) and backshell radiation and direct heat flux-sensing sensors (known as COMARS (Combined Aerothermal and Radiometer Sensors Instrument Pack…