Every article saying something is proof of Mockingbird media, not proof of the truth of something.

Here is something that should help to understand the basics. I only watched about a minute from the timestamp in this link. It should be sufficient to understand this curved path I am talking about.

I may not have explained it perfectly. The reason the path is curved is because the rocket engine has enough fuel for a limited burst of acceleration, thus the probe must rely on its initial velocity (whatever it achieves after its fuel is spent) to intersect with the Mars Orbit at the same time Mars reaches that point in its orbit.

But the probe is being accelerated towards the sun by gravity (away from the desired Mars orbit) thus the path that must be traveled by the probe is a curve (orbit) using only its initial velocity to achieve an intersection of its orbit (around the sun, that we gave it when we sent it off from Earth) and the orbit of Mars around the sun (that it has had for a very long time).

Every article saying something is proof of Mockingbird media, not proof of the truth of something.

Here is something that should help to understand the basics. I only watched about a minute from the timestamp in this link. It should be sufficient to understand this curved path I am talking about.

I may not have explained it perfectly. The reason the path is curved is because the rocket engine has enough fuel for a limited burst of acceleration, thus the probe must rely on its initial velocity (whatever it achieves after its fuel is spent) to intersect with the Mars Orbit at the same time Mars reaches that point in its orbit.

But the probe is being accelerated towards the sun (away from the desired Mars orbit) thus the path that must be traveled by the probe is a curve (orbit) using only its initial velocity to achieve an intersection of its orbit (around the sun, that we gave it when we sent it off from Earth) and the orbit of Mars around the sun (that it has had for a very long time).