It will fly for about 90 minutes before it runs out of fuel then it will make a graceful landing on the surface of Mars.
The LM was intended for two men (Lovell and Haise) to use in their landing on the lunar surface and then their return to the command module.
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It gives us basic capabilities for operating the rover on the surface, but we have planned all along to switch over after landing to a version of flight software that is really optimized for surface operations.
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The rover is installing its full surface operations software after the landing because its computers didn't have room for it during flight.
Particles whipped up by landing rockets on the moon's surface could damage what was left behind by the Apollo missions, ruining its scientific and historic value.
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One key contribution would be the landing system that places the rover on the surface of the Red Planet.
The firm made the Eagle module that carried Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the lunar surface for the first manned moon landing in 1969.
These pictures will be posted on the website and used as a stepping stone for students to learn more about the Lunar surface, the history of the Moon, and potential landing sites for future Moon missions.
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They pinpointed the landing sites for the Apollo astronauts - high-resolution pictures of the surface of Mars.
When it reached about a mile or so above the surface, the chute will be jettisoned and a cluster of eight landing rockets would fire.
Number two, instead of a packed, hard surface the high jump was making the transition to a soft, padded landing which meant you could do things differently.
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In the final landing phase, the spacecraft will hover on its jets about 65 feet above the surface and unreel the rover on three Kevlar cables in what NASA engineers call a "sky crane, " lowering it to the ground at less than two miles per hour.
Since landing near the Martian equator last summer, Curiosity has continued to track radiation as it rolls across the dusty surface toward its eventual mountain destination.
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