iannis
Musty Nester
InSight apparently got really lucky w/ the landing spot, some less favorable areas nearby.
It's horrible to think that we send these probes however many million miles we do over the course of years or months and if they just happened to land on a boulder then boom, it was all for nothing.
Talk about rolling the dice. I wonder how much they can account for that, because i'm SURE they try to account for that. Like are they able, in theory, to change their landing area to avoid bad terrain? With the airbag landings, not so much. With thruster landings... maybe that's why they switched to thruster landings. I know there were a few airbag landings (well, at least one, maybe "a few" is an exaggeration) that didn't make the landing.
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