2! Two days to landing. Want more input? Watch this.

"Input! Give me input!" quoting Number 5, the robot in Short Circuit.

Here's more input on the critical, nail-biting EDL - Entry, Descent, Landing - stage of Curiosity's long flight to Mars.

So how do you slow a spacecraft from a relative velocity of 12,844 kilometres per hour to zero - in just seven minutes?

Spaceflight 101 have annotated the landing video, giving great information on each key point of this complex landing process:





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