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IT LANDED!

• shadowgovt 6y ago
  Upright and in one piece. :) No, but seriously: amazing engineering and amazing work. So great to see the images streaming in already.
  • WJW 6y ago
    The skycrane system is just SO COOL. It's also one of those things that is super easy to explain but incredibly difficult to actually construct, let alone have it work well after flying all the way to Mars.
    • tnorthcutt 6y ago
      They're not that hard to make and fly... in Kerbal Space Program ;) (I'm totally kidding; what they've accomplished is incredible!)
    • chasd00 6y ago
      i can't believe it works. Those thrusters making all that turbulence and racket. Then the cables have to unwind without getting tangled and at the same rate. Then, finally, at the end, they have to detach the cables and fly away. It's pretty nuts.
      • dodge321 6y ago
        ropes detached using a small wedge driven by explosive to cut cable.