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		chrisweekly 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Athena landed in a dark crater where the temperatu... "the atmosphere, with drag that will make all velocities trend towards zero" Did you forget about gravity? Terminal velocity in free-fall is not zero!

TylerE 5 months ago [–]

Trend towards. The rocket is descending far faster than low altitude terminal velocity.

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