Cool animation of the Mars Curiosity mission. The landing process is clever — but it sure seems to have a lot of moving parts, which worries me. #ddtb
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Here's the NASA animation we're seeing about the new crane landing method that will be used for this Mars landing.
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NASA animation depicts Curiosity's soft landing on Mars, courtesy of a 'sky crane' (video)
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About 1 minute into the video, the assembly strongly resembles a “flying saucer”.