Cosmic Queries – Navigating the Cosmos
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How to Control a Rover on Mars
You can get there an arbitrarily short amount of time just how much fuel you want to burn. And if we're traveling to it, it's like at least 200 days. We do it the cheap and easy way. It just takes longer where you burn your all your fuel and then you coast the rest of the way. That gives you enough speed to start out. No, excuse you coast to have just enough speed to cross over from Earth's tug into Mars's gravitational pull.
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