Big NASA Rover Bets On Untested Landing Technology

Credit: NASA/JPL
NASA will try a completely new—and scary—technique to land the largest rover yet on the surface of Mars next year, in a spot that scientists hope will tell them whether the planet can, or ever could, support life. Crews from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Kennedy Space Center are in the...

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