7 Minutes of Terror: Curiosity Rover's Risky Mars Landing | Video
VideoFromSpace3 HN recommenders · recommended in 3 months, 2017-2021
1.2M views · 14 years ago · explainer · evergreen
NASA's animated explanation of the Curiosity rover's Mars landing, which relied on a complex automated sequence taking about seven minutes. It features NASA engineers discussing the risks before the 2012 landing.
Recommended as a gripping look at how hard Mars entry, descent and landing is.
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4 comments from Hacker News
Somewhat over-the-top but still cool discussion of this by actual NASA tech folks, made before the landing actually happened: ▶ this video
> Oh, it has to land like the Falcon 9 as well, except hovering and lowering itself on a tether, like the Air Cav for Mars. Here's a video that blows my mind every time I watch it. ▶ this video Such a complicated landing sequence, and needs to work correctly the first time, all autonomously. And it worked!
1. About 6 months link 2. Out of ~50 missions, about 20 have failed. link 3. About 8 successful landings link Curiousity was by far the 'coolest' and still astonishes me that we pulled it off. ▶ this video 4. No.
For a dramatic coverage of this exact subject, I highly recommend 'Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror' [1] from NASA JPL. [1] link or on Youtube: ▶ this video