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  On 2/18/2021 at 5:31 PM, SquishMitten said:

That preview looks badass. I know we can’t watch live, but are there going to be videos released? Do they have cameras on for the landing or are they all tucked inside for safety?

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Best you can do today is watch the control room sweat it out.

Here's Curiosity's view of landing on Mars, from 2012.  I think the thing dropping at the beginning is the heat shield.

 

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On a serious note, congrats to all the steely eyed missile men and women that made pulling a rabbit out of your ass 128 million miles away while threading a needle possible.

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  On 2/18/2021 at 9:01 PM, smuggs said:

More images of the team member in the white pants, pls.

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Maybe it's the camera angle, but she was in the center of a lot of the shots.

 

That said... white pants before Memorial Day. Bad fashion sense, would not bang, gently.

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This stuff is hats off amazing to me. I can't get the wooden gate to hang correctly and these people fly a rocket 100 million miles away, have a self-directed landing, and send back pictures right away. Next up? We're going to fly a drone around.

So, yeah. They're bad ass.

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  On 2/18/2021 at 9:51 PM, Constant said:

How do we get it back?

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They mentioned something about a future vehicle that will retrieve the samples, launch from Mars to be collected by an ESA vehicle in orbit. I don't recall if that particular spacecraft is coming back to earth, or if it relays the samples to another ship.

Either way, fascinating stuff. The Martian book/movie (*** Matt Damon!!! ***) actually did a decent job explaining the science about Martian travel, so watch the movie for entertainment and some learning.

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