[PLUG-TALK] Mars lander Curiousity, OMSI Sunday Night Aug 5

[Ronald Chmara]

On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Russell Senior
<russell at personaltelco.net> wrote:
>>>>>> "Richard" == Richard  <plug at hackhawk.net> writes:
>
> Richard> I was a little disappointed at how much unproven technology
> Richard> they're using.  They have a method that worked very well with
> Richard> the last two rovers.
>
> This rover is too heavy for the bouncing balloon landing.  Mars is a
> bitch to land on.  The atmosphere is too thin to slow heavy stuff
> down.

I wonder what issues they had scaling up the airbag/balloon method....
my guess is a weight issue?

-Ronabop