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For anyone who missed this, they lowered the rover to the surface from a levitating rocket-powered skycrane.


...which was controlled autonomously to boot!

Definitely one of the most bad-assed ways to deliver a rover to the surface of another planet. If you had told me as a kid this would be possible, I would have considered it almost impossible, except maybe as a science fiction concept.


I don't know if there's another true sentence from which I can derive as much joy as this one.




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