On Sunday evening, Aug. 5, NASA's latest mission to Mars, the Mars Science Laboratory, touches down on the Red Planet. To get the car-sized rover "Curiosity" down safely engineers invented a new landing sequence, one that pushes current technology to the absolute limit. Image: NASA.
In this video produced by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineers working on the MSL team share the excitement and the risk of Curiosity's planned landing.
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