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http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/news/whatsnew/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=1290

"If HiRISE took the image one second before or one second after, we probably would be looking at an empty Martian landscape," said Sarah Milkovich, HiRISE investigation scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "When you consider that we have been working on this sequence since March and had to upload commands to the spacecraft about 72 hours prior to the image being taken, you begin to realize how challenging this picture was to obtain."

That's a picture of the Mars probe Curiosity parachuting in for a landing over the weekend.


eddie S, our resident CIA analyst, (see viewtopic.php?f=7&t=21394) might chime in with a different interpretation.

My interpretation is classified as “Need to know” . I actually stayed up to watch the landing. It was amazing.

The math behind landings like these must have been astonishingly complex.