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

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday March 29, 2010 @04:00AM from the we're-gonna-need-a-bigger-boat dept.

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."

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Re:+1 by Anonymous Coward · 2010-03-29 04:23 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Yo, Slashdot, Imma let ya finish, but the "How do I shot web" has the best typo of all time. Of all time!
Re:Show of hands... by sohp · 2010-03-29 05:00 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I can't stand listening to Miles O'Brien, his voice grates on me. Worse, he really doesn't seem to know what he's talking about much of the time.