Seven Minutes of Terror | Mars Perseverance Rover from stick Watch Video
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Description: The saying goes, “you gotta stick the landing.” Nowhere is that more true than putting a large payload - like Perseverance - on Mars.It’s no easy task to send a 2,260 pound rover the size of a car from space to the ground in a seven minute long plunge.To do it, engineers are NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab use what’s called a “Sky Crane” method.It all starts with the “Cruise Stage” of the spacecraft traveling 12,100 mph separating from the spacecraft and initiating guided entry
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