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Mars Science Laboratory: How Do You Get to Mars?

So you want to heave a couple billion dollars worth of robotic science exploration machinery on a roughly 350 million-mile trek to a not-so-huge rock that you have to precisely run into nine months from now … how would you do it?

I bet there’s lots of calculus involved.

(by JPLnews)

Source: youtube.com

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