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2. Landing on Mars is DIFFICULT!

Wed Oct 19, 2016, 09:07 AM

Oct 2016

The atmosphere is too thin to help much. Mars' mass too large.

It is pretty much a clusterfuck for any lander.

Go Schiaparelli!!

R&K

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