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for curiosity can explore Mars it's got

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to get there first the last stage of the

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launch vehicle gives the spacecraft a

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final push and spins it up for our eight

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and a half month cruise to the Red

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Planet ten minutes before hitting the

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atmosphere the crew stage separates and

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hitting the atmosphere at about 13,000

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miles per hour spacecraft begins to slow

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while slowing down the spacecraft uses

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thrusters to help steer toward the

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landing target we throw off weights to

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rebalance the spacecraft so it's lined

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up for parachute deploy after slowing to

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about Mach 2 or about a thousand miles

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per hour we deploy the parachute to slow

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once we're below the speed of sound the

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heat shield separates and the spacecraft

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looks for the ground with the landing

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radar once we've reached an altitude of

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about one mile spacecraft drops out of

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the backshell at about 200 miles an hour

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it then fires up the landing engines to

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slow it down even further

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once we've descended to about 60 feet

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above the ground and are going only

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about two miles per hour

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as the rover is lowered the wheels

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what's the rubbers on the ground and

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touchdown it's been detected there's

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sense age cuts the rover loose it flies

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away even curiosity's safe on the

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one of the first things curiosity does

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after landing is to deploy the mast

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which supports many cameras and

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curiosity shoots a laser at an

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interesting target

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this helps us quickly understand the

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kind and composition of that target from

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you're the targets worth a closer look

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curiosity can drive up and inspect it

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with the instruments and tools at the

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the drill on the arm allows us to grab

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some that rock and deliver it to the

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laboratory instruments inside the body

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those instruments can tell us even more

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about the mineral composition getting us

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closer to understanding whether life

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curiosity will be exploring the red