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

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This is soooo cooool!   If you look at nothing else today you have to watch this.

 

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Published on Jun 22, 2012 by JPLnews

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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki_Af_o9Q9s

h/t MK