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NASA's Mars2020 mission is about to land the latest rover called Perseverance. It's more or less an upgraded clone of Curiosity with some new science instruments, and an objective to collect samples for a future Mars Sample Return campaign. Nominal landing time is 11:15 PST, you can watch the...

https://www.photographytalk.com/mobile-homepage/7970-five-years-later-the-mars-curiosity-rover-is-still-taking-some-great-photos :leon:

NASA's Opportunity Has Now Explored the Martian Surface for 11 Years Designed for a 90 day mission. Still going after 11 years. :winning: :goestoeleven:

NASA - NASA Rover Finds Old Streambed on Martian Surface

Giant rover to make terrifying landing on Mars They land it with a "supersonic parachute", at 1000MPH, that takes 65,000lbs of force and only weights 100lbs. That slows it to 200mph, where rockets take over. Once it's closer to the ground, they lower the rover via a crane, from the rockets...

Awesome.

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe Go to the page and read the mouse-over text too. Man, that's actually kind of sad. :/