August 5th, Curiosity will be landing on Mars and NASA's JPL has produced this short trailer to explain just how insanely hair-trigger terrifyingly no margin for error getting that thing on the ground is going to be.
Watch this.
(This emphasizes the debate about the general utility of space exploration and the old humans versus robots thing to me. Robots and rovers are awesome ways to pave the way for human exploration of our solar system and beyond. And for me, it comes to simple environmental preservation- unless we all agree to stop having babies, we gotta find other places to put this surplus of humanity that keeps growing. And the only way to truly ensure our survival as a species is to get off the planet. It'll be better for Earth, better for us and in general, given humanity's incredible itch to go places, probably inevitable anyway.)
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