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Launch is important. Returning intact is even more important. Sending a parachute to Mars and back is expensive; insuring that it works after years of outgassing, radiation, and heat cycling may be more difficult than the mass-cost of launching it.
Apollo deployed drogue chutes at 150 m/s and 7300 meters altitude. What if those parachutes, or the main parachutes, had failed? I don't know how much of the velocity was hour