Crane crucial to NASA Mars landing

Alex Dahm

27 July 2012

Impression of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover being lowered to the surface of the red planet by "sky crane"

Early August sees deployment of a rocket powered robot crane to lower NASA's mars rover, called Curiosity, to the surface of the red planet.

In a tough mission the 1 tonne planetary…

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