Nasa Curiosity rover - will it land successfully on Mars ?

[adubya]

Bonkers landing strategy involving parachutes deployed at 900mph, jet thrusters lowering the whole caboodle to within 20m of the surface and then the lander lowered down on wires.

NASA's nuclear Mars tank prepares for high pucker-factor landing ? The Register

Will it work ?

[Cliphead]

If it does it will be a temendous achievement, looking forward to this one.

As long as they don't confuse metric with imperial they've got a chance

[MarillionFan]

Absolutely no ******* way. This is way more complicated than a secret warehouse in Area 51

[alluvial]

Looking forward to this for some strange indefinable reason. Watched the animation of the landing (planned anyway) and looks truly awesome and if they pull it off, then it is truly hats off to the engineers.

[Cliphead]

Looking forward to this for some strange indefinable reason. Watched the animation of the landing (planned anyway) and looks truly awesome and if they pull it off, then it is truly hats off to the engineers.

Audacity my friend.

[alluvial]

Audacity my friend.

Actually, I think that you've got the right word there, truly audacious.

I wonder if the guys who designed it played lunar lander much as kids.

[Cliphead]

I wonder if the guys who designed it played lunar lander much as kids.

They'll be used to crashing a lot if they did

[BS1397]

Bonkers landing strategy involving parachutes deployed at 900mph, jet thrusters lowering the whole caboodle to within 20m of the surface and then the lander lowered down on wires.

NASA's nuclear Mars tank prepares for high pucker-factor landing ? The Register

Will it work ?

That depends, Do we know if Howard Wolowitz designed it?

[BS1397]

I think he designed that crazy retrorocket thing on strings.

Have they calculated how big the hole it makes will be?

Enough to fill the Albert Hall, or 4000 holes in Blackburn Lancashire.