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7 Minutes of Terror: Curiosity Rover's Risky Mars Landing | Video

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NASA's animated explanation of the Curiosity rover's Mars landing, which relied on a complex automated sequence taking about seven minutes. It features NASA engineers discussing the risks before the 2012 landing.

Recommended as a gripping look at how hard Mars entry, descent and landing is.

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4 comments from Hacker News

@niftich2017 · in “Water Found Deep Inside the Moon”

For a dramatic coverage of this exact subject, I highly recommend 'Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror' [1] from NASA JPL. [1] [LINK] or on Youtube: [VIDEO]

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@sathackr2018 · in “How to Land on Mars”

1. About 6 months [LINK] 2. Out of ~50 missions, about 20 have failed. [LINK] 3. About 8 successful landings [LINK] Curiousity was by far the 'coolest' and still astonishes me that we pulled it off. [VIDEO] 4. No.

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@perryizgr82020 · in “NASA rushing to complete Mars launch before planet moves out of range”

> Oh, it has to land like the Falcon 9 as well, except hovering and lowering itself on a tether, like the Air Cav for Mars. Here's a video that blows my mind every time I watch it. [VIDEO] Such a complicated landing sequence, and needs to work correctly the first time, all autonomously. And it worked!

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@rossdavidh2021 · in “NASA's Curiosity rover: 3k days on Mars”

Somewhat over-the-top but still cool discussion of this by actual NASA tech folks, made before the landing actually happened: [VIDEO]

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