Friday, August 10, 2012

How NASA engineered Curiosity's tricky landing

NASA photo cutline: This close-up look at the Mars rover Curiosity's deck shows small Martian rocks on top of the rover. The rocks were kicked up by Curiosity's sky crane rockets, but pose no concern for the rover. Image taken on Sol 3 (Aig. 8-9, 2012).
(NASA/JPL-Caltech)



Best YouTube comments:
  • 0.6 of a penny on your tax dollar in the U.S.
  • Americans lol... got to dramatize and add movie music to get them to not fall asleep during a 5 min video.
  • This is worthwhile. $50M high school football stadiums in Texas is not. 
Below: a video NASA probably won't be posting to YouTube with heroic music (it's there because NASA's stream was captured by a YouTube user). It's a Project Morpheus moon lander developed in partnership with privately-owned Armadillo Aerospace. It crashed and burned yesterday in Florida.


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