Mars: Engineers admire Curiosity's landing, prep for rover brain transplant - latimes.com: "The Curiosity rover’s landing wasn’t quite perfect -- but if the Martian robot were an Olympic gymnast, it could earn a gold medal for its gymnastic contortions, according to NASA engineers.
The Mars Science Laboratory’s climactic Aug. 5 landing essentially happened on autopilot, with scientists and engineers in the control room at Jet Propulsion Laboratory waiting several minutes as the rover’s signals traveled the roughly 150 million miles back to Earth."
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