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Curiosity is the name given to the recent NASA Rover that just landed on the Martian soil. This is actually pretty amazing how they did it. The last Rover was a small robotic mini car with a good amount of Sci-Tech for exploring. It was solar powered, like its predecessor. It was put into a balloon like structure that literally bounced its way to a safe landing. Once stopped, the door opened, and the rover was able to drive out.
But this newer Rover is the size of a small car, has a full laboratory on board and is fitted with HD cameras. This one is nuclear powered! It parachuted down into the thin martian atmosphere at more than 13,000 miles and hour. Then a pod opened up, and a smaller booster ship with the rover attached to it used rocket boosters to slow down, once close enough the smaller booster ship lowered the Rover down with cables and landed at 2mph. Simply AMAZING. But since i am a conspiracy theorist, maybe this is all faked and filmed in a Hollywood lot? |
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