Check out http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/17 ... _approved/]this article for CGI footage depicting how the upcoming Mars Science Laboratory robot is going to land. I have no idea why it's necessary to lower it on a winch from a hovering crane, but it looks cool as hell. Oh, and the video also shows it doing other stuff but it was the landing I wanted to rave about, especially since it's made using simulated hand-held camera footage, like Firefly's FX.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.