How Do You Land a Nuke-Powered Mini-Cooper On Mars?

tcd004 writes "Miles O'Brien narrates this video simulation of NASA's next Mars shot, which promises to out-gun all previous efforts. The Mini Cooper-sized Mars Science Laboratory, which is now named Curiosity, will crawl the Martian surface under steam from a nuclear powerplant — but it's a gentle giant compared to its predecessors. Recent theories have emerged that previous attempts at identifying organic compounds in Martian soil may have actually cooked away any signs of life-giving elements. Curiosity will go to great pains to avoid scorching the Earth ... erm ... Mars."

Comments

Re:"Its" is possessive

[Shikaku]

The law of correcting typos: attemping to correct a previous poster's typo creates a typo from the current poster.

Re:RTFA

[Geoffrey.landis]

"How Do Yo Land a Nuke-Powered Mini-Cooper On Mars?"

Clearly, it's a pun on the word "Yo-yo".

Since the plan is that it does down, but not back up again, it's just a "yo".