The spacecraft carrying Curiosity enters the thin Martian atmosphere at a speed of 13,200 miles an hour. It has six or seven “minutes of terror” to come to the virtually full stop needed to place the rover on the surface of Mars.
(NASA/JPL-Caltech)
The spacecraft carrying Curiosity enters the thin Martian atmosphere at a speed of 13,200 miles an hour. It has six or seven “minutes of terror” to come to the virtually full stop needed to place the rover on the surface of Mars.
(NASA/JPL-Caltech)