Challenges of Getting to Mars: Curiosity’s Seven Minutes of Terror [Video]

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Imagine going from the top of the atmosphere to the surface of Mars in seven minutes starting at a speed of 13,000 miles per hour and decelerating to zero. That is the challenge awaiting NASA’s Curiosity Rover when it reaches the red planet in August…

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