{"id":24038,"date":"2011-11-25T12:14:16","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T19:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/25\/mission-to-mars.html"},"modified":"2011-11-26T20:54:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T03:54:00","slug":"mission-to-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/25\/mission-to-mars.html","title":{"rendered":"Mission to Mars!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Keith Barrett<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Here's the NASA animation we're seeing about the new crane landing method that will be used for this Mars landing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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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 Reshared post from +Keith Barrett 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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