Challenges of Getting to Mars: Curiosity’s Seven Minutes of Terror

This is the stuff Rube Goldberg machines are made of. I bet NASA designed this landing sequence because they felt the irresistible urge to out do Hollywood. I mean, they even named the process like a movie. Look, here’s the trailer.

And you know the landing is on August 5th. It’s a Sunday and I guess we know what the show topic will be.

Marv

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