Mars Rover's "Seven Minutes of Terror"

July 31, 2012—NASA has planned one of the most complicated spacecraft landings ever attempted for the Curiosity rover's touchdown on August 6 at about 1:30 am. ET.

The complex procedure involves the use of the largest supersonic parachute ever built and a "sky crane" to lower the rover onto the Martian surface. "If any one thing doesn't work just right," says one engineer, "it's game over!"

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[ASwiftHippie]

Lol. Yes, "God" created a universe of unimaginable size(estimated over 250,000,000,000 stars in our Galaxy and hundreds of billions of galaxies just as big and sometimes bigger) JUST to be worshiped by one species of primate on a single planet in some backwater neighborhood of an insignificant galaxy called the Milky Way.

I'm sure that's what's going on.

Or... what if one species simply evolved enough to wonder how they got there and made up primitive, illogical stories of a creator. Nah...

[culwin]

7 minutes of terror? Sounds like my honeymoon.

[MikahSK]

i dont believe it , moon landing all over again

[bammbamm12]

Question from an average knucklehead: Mars rotates once every 24 hours like earth. Since it's only half the size of earth, it would be spinning at about 500 mph at its equator. How come the rover did not hit a 500 mph moving object when it landed?

[Rysa Fysa]

So what's so wrong about that?

[mekkanikmike]

Ain't it interesting how christians seem to completely ignore other religions' views on creation?

[mekkanikmike]

Dont worry about the planet. Worry more about whose hands you're leaving the planet in. With the current generation, personally, i'd rather be off this rock.

[mekkanikmike]

*atheist. I do believe in a dictionary.

[ASwiftHippie]

Haha, your choice. I would say it's an extremely illogical one but I can't stop you.

[WorldChampInfinity]

I'm going to go with your first hypothesis.

[WarPig15]

See that's what's pathetic. That you gotta brag with that, and most americans had nothing to do with olimpics of Mars landing. I respect the Individuals who got the medals, but I don't give a fuck what country they came from. It's supposed to be a competition between people, not between countries, or cities, or continents, or political systems. Same for Curiosity. But no, everyone loves a cold war. We are not ready for world peace.Fuck humanity.