Challenges of Getting to Mars

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Team members at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory share the challenges of the Curiosity Mars rover's final minutes to landing on the surface of Mars.

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Jun 22, 2012 7:35 PM

Re: Challenges of Getting to Mars

Coming soon to a planet near you....

By: kooolcat
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Re: Challenges of Getting to Mars

I was looking for the Like button ... for one brief moment.

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A lot of details that go wrong. No wonder we were hitting at about 50% on our last dozen probes until the wild success of Spirit and Opportunity.

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man, you can tell all these engineers are feeding an ulcer right now. hoping against hope that their portion of the sequence works