Aaeve had darted a 20 meters on the riven. The spacecraft was just too heavy to land by parachutes alone. So nassa needed to use a special manoeuvre called the sky crane. Once it was on the ground, the spacecraft detached the cables from the rover and then blasted away so it wouldn't fall on top of ame. But how do you choose those rocks? On a planet full of rocks? How do you find that needle in that enormous haystack? We wanted a first hand perspective here, so we did something fun. We sent producer and even when to mars. Well, i didn't technically get to mars, but i went to the next
Mars was once a very different planet, with rivers, lakes, and — potentially — life. NASA’s latest Mars rover is on a mission to find traces of past life. What happens if it does?
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