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Timeline: ESA spacecraft and station track critical arrival at Mars

• trothamel 14y ago
  For those who haven't seen it, JPL has a nice animated simulation of the landing. It operates in realtime, with a button to advance to just before the time of the landing: http://eyes.jpl.nasa.gov http://eyes.jpl.nasa.gov It requires Java, and you'll need to grant it permission to run.
  • colkassad 14y ago
    That was fantastic, thanks for sharing. I wonder if they use Celestia or something to create that. I would really like to know how they created that.
    • rubberbandage 14y ago
      It certainly looks similar—one thing you might have noticed is that the entire rest of the solar system (including some mid-sized asteroids) is in there and decently textured. Really terrific!