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Holy crap that sounds complicated! Hopefully someone suspended Murphy's Law for this particular date. Way too many things can so easily go wrong. If they pull this off, wow.
This is legitimately exciting. I have a hard time seeing that thing pulling off all the crazy sh-t it's supposed to in order to land.
Damn, I had no idea just how big this rover was compared to the ones of the past! <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/7706978152/" title="Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Social (201208030006HQ) by nasa hq photo, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8009/7706978152_f2295a87af.jpg" width="500" height="377" alt="Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Social (201208030006HQ)"></a>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>"Tell us what you were thinking while you were descending" - Andrea Kremer's post-landing interview with Curiosity</p>— Andy Levy (@andylevy) <a href="https://twitter.com/andylevy/status/232340240113754112" data-datetime="2012-08-06T05:00:04+00:00">August 6, 2012</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>I'm inside the orbit of Deimos and completely on my own. Wish me luck! <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23MSL"><s>#</s><b>MSL</b></a></p>— Curiosity Rover (@MarsCuriosity) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity/status/232328264968970241" data-datetime="2012-08-06T04:12:29+00:00">August 6, 2012</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>