Can anyone verify? I don't have my laptop with me and earth isn't fun on mobile
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Probably a valid test site. The Mars mission is legit. They've sent quite a few rovers now. What were Spirit and Opportunity, 2003 or 2004?
I'm not sure what about the mission is so unbelievable.... should fall well within the limits of what we expect our species can accomplish.
After hearing Elon Musk talk about how difficult VTOL craft are to control without accident leads me to believe this Mars mission is once again fake. Musk has had setback after setback and failure after failure with his VTOL rockets. NASA on the other hand seems to have absolutely no problem using VTOL systems even with one that has a dropping winch in the case of the Mars rovers. I don’t buy it.
All it had to do was slow down in the last phase and land. It's not like a Harrier jet. After the entry phase, heat shield, and parachute deployment, the entry vehicle had to fire rockets to slow down to a stationary position, after which point it drops the actual rover by cable, then charges blow the cables and the thing crashes. All in much lighter gravity. They've done it the same way a bunch of times now. It's actually a pretty crude method and doesn't seem that difficult to me. It's not the same as a VTOL craft using rockets to take off and land all the time.