We — the royal we, because I personally did not do shit — landed an SUV on a planet that, at its closest, is about 34 million miles away. We did it with a giant sky crane, a feat of engineering that’s staggering, and the whole thing had to be programmed beforehand because Mars is so far away that one way messages are four to 24 minutes to get there, depending on how close it is to us at any given moment.
The hem and the haw of the planet of war
The hem and the haw of the planet of war
The hem and the haw of the planet of war
We — the royal we, because I personally did not do shit — landed an SUV on a planet that, at its closest, is about 34 million miles away. We did it with a giant sky crane, a feat of engineering that’s staggering, and the whole thing had to be programmed beforehand because Mars is so far away that one way messages are four to 24 minutes to get there, depending on how close it is to us at any given moment.