Curiosity’s Chances? Most Mars Missions Crash, Burn or Disappear... Wired -

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12:35 PM  -  Public

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Curiosity’s Chances? Most Mars Missions Crash, Burn or Disappear... Wired - "Counting all Soviet/Russian, U.S., European, and Japanese attempts, more than half of Mars missions have failed, either because of some botched rocket launch on Earth or a systems malfunction en route to or at the planet. ... Set to touch down on Aug. 5, NASA’s newest Mars rover,Curiosity, will be the largest man-made object ever placed on another planet, requiring a never-before-attempted landing sequence. With its carefully orchestrated parachutes, rockets, hovering UFO-like platform, and sky crane, the descent has to go off in a pitch perfect order to avoid the rover becoming a fiery crater on the Martian surface. ..." http://bit.ly/ODFP3H... keeping fingers crossed!

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Hudson Ansley12:37 PM

I'm sure this will be a flawless landing (but will still have my fingers crossed! ;-)

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