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Mars Landing

Dean

TD Member
cool story on how the Mars landing's gonna go down on Moday

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...rover-in-mission-to-explore-mars-8002289.html

Steve Connor said:
On Monday morning, a few seconds after 6.30am London time if all goes to plan, Nasa will know whether a $2.5bn (£1.67bn) gamble on a heat shield, a set of eight retrorockets and three nylon lines has paid off.

For the first time, a landing vehicle will be gently lowered to the surface of another planet using nylon tethers suspended from a mother spacecraft hovering precariously overhead.

A safe landing will be the culmination of a hair-raising journey through the thin Martian atmosphere which will have begun seven minutes earlier as Nasa's Mars Science Laboratory mission begins its entry and descent to
 

$alvador

TD Member
if this fails, Obama will declare Mars a terrorist and give what remains of NASA funding to the Air Force for development of an inter-planetary ICBM just in case Mars wiggles in its orbit which will be considered an act of aggression. Children in Africa will continue to go unfed.
 

47

TD Admin, Chicken Licker, Top Shelf Sleeper
y dont they just use the same method they used to land on the moon? *trollface*
 

B.From.Acc

TD Admin
this was so awesome.

i pushed my glasses up the bridge of my nose muuuulllltiple times to be sure i didn't miss anything.

just happened to start watching during the 7 minutes of terror, turned off after the first few images came in. twas nifty!
 
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