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Science, Inventions & Space Discuss How to Watch the Mars Curiosity Rover Landing at the General Discussion; Originally Posted by cnredd Tonight!!! Plenty of links in the article...I suggest you go to it... How to Watch the ...

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Tonight!!! Plenty of links in the article...I suggest you go to it...

How to Watch the Mars Curiosity Rover Landing
Great saves me a search. My . As last night I saw a TV Show on this very same event, the people who worked so hard to get their part of the 11 experiments, those (250) who helped build it with it's 17 cameras.

And while eating I just saw where sense 2002 the fly bys didn't pick up till 2003 this new expanse of material flow into a area where nothing was before.

This Rover is the size of a Cooper mini car and I believe part of what will mine our moon and other space (large) items/rocks for helium 3 in the coming years.

But I am the only one it seems to believe that right now.
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NASA did not do that. Somebody else made that happen.


And for those that may not know, this landing was the most complicated one ever attempted. A parachute slows it down, where a platform ejects and fires thrusters to keep it hovering in one place while the rover is lowered by cable to the surface of Mars.

Someone at NASA was high when they came up with that idea, but it worked perfectly.

Here is a video showing how it works.

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Comet what do you mean by the above? I am

But the rest was great if it was the first time one saw it, for the ones who have seen some of it before it was still sweet. I watched them twice and can't get over how much went into this mission.

And the luck (for lack of a better word right now) this mission had to over come so much and work perfect.

It is my understanding this Health Check might take up to a month to complete, is that right?
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