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Nailed it - https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/avoiding-hazards-at-jezero-crater https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/avoiding-hazards-at-jezero-c... (A little more co

by jcims 6y ago

Nailed it - https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/avoiding-hazards-at-jezero-crater https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/avoiding-hazards-at-jezero-c... (A little more complicated than that of course. If I understand correctly, anything in blue was a candidate landing spot that it was free to select from. I'm pretty sure the header image is an artistic crop :) )

sp332 6y ago
It was almost that good. It had a five-mile-wide ellipse to search, and found a spot close to the middle. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/371/6532/870/F1.large.jpg https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/371/6532/870/F1.l... If you have a Science magazine subscription, the image is from this article: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6532/870?rss=1/share https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6532/870?rss=1/sh...