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Landing Sounds Overly Complicated
Look Out Mars, Here Comes InSight
Posted from npr.org
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Posted >1 y ago
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That’s pretty good, since making a soft landing on Mars is extremely complicated - a combination of too much gravity and not enough atmosphere. Landing the Huygens probe on Titan was a lot simpler - dense atmosphere and low gravity - even though it was 8 AU further.
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Very cool!
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I hope it does not gets destroyed like this lander did in 1999.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Polar_Lander
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Polar_Lander
The Mars Polar Lander, also known as the Mars Surveyor '98 Lander, was a 290-kilogram robotic spacecraft lander launched by NASA on January 3, 1999 to study the soil and climate of Planum Australe, a region near the south pole on Mars. It formed part of the Mars Surveyor '98 mission. On December 3, 1999, however, after the descent phase was expected to be complete, the lander failed to reestablish communication with Earth. A post-mortem...
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