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7 Minutes of Terror: Curiosity Rover's Risky Mars Landing | Video

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What it is

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as a gripping look at how hard Mars entry, descent and landing is.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 2 strong recommendations
  • first 2017, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “I highly recommend 'Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror'”

    Dramatic coverage of Curiosity's landing sequence

    niftich, 2017-08 · Strong recommendation · in “Water Found Deep Inside the Moon”

  2. “Here's a video that blows my mind every time I watch it.”

    Complex autonomous landing sequence that had to work first time

    perryizgr8, 2020-06 · Strong recommendation · in “NASA rushing to complete Mars launch before planet moves out of range”

  3. “Somewhat over-the-top but still cool discussion of this by actual NASA tech folks”

    NASA engineers discuss the landing before it happened

    rossdavidh, 2021-01 · Recommendation · in “NASA's Curiosity rover: 3k days on Mars”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: curiosity, nasa, mars landing, sky crane, entry descent landing

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