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Agreed but I would call the landing anything but hard. The precision and care with which that vehicle was delivered to the surface is just a mind boggling feat
by radiorental 10y ago
Agreed but I would call the landing anything but hard. The precision and care with which that vehicle was delivered to the surface is just a mind boggling feature of engineering.
- wlesieutre 10y agoFor anyone who missed this, they lowered the rover to the surface from a levitating rocket-powered skycrane.
- kristjansson 10y agoI don't know if there's another true sentence from which I can derive as much joy as this one.
- cr0sh 10y ago...which was controlled autonomously to boot! Definitely one of the most bad-assed ways to deliver a rover to the surface of another planet. If you had told me as a kid this would be possible, I would have considered it almost impossible, except maybe as a science fiction concept.