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Stories tagged “Mars”

Every story in the journal tagged “Mars”, newest first.

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Walking on the Moon in Space Radar: the Apollo 15 Lunar Module’s gold descent stage on grey ground at Hadley, with low lunar hills behind it and a black starry sky

Walk on the Moon and Mars in 3D: the Real Ground at Eight Landing Sites

Stand where Apollo 15 landed, drive Perseverance across Jezero, then look up and watch Phobos cross the Sun. Eight landing sites built from orbiters’ height models, and the skies of six other worlds.

12 Nov 202610 min read

The Curiosity rover hanging on three cords under its rocket-powered descent stage, four engine flames lit, over a flat butterscotch Martian plain.

Missions & Spacecraft

Curiosity’s Landing: The Seven Minutes of Terror, Step by Step

Curiosity’s entry, descent and landing took 7 minutes 11 seconds on 6 August 2012. Here is the clock JPL published, the heights and speeds NASA gave, and what a 3D replay has to fill in between them.

4 Nov 20268 min read