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NASA Is Dropping a New Rover on Mars. Here’s What Could Go Wrong – Gizmodo

Failure could take on many forms next week when NASA’s next-gen rover, Perseverance, reaches the surface of the Red Planet. Here’s what needs to go right—and how…

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Failure could take on many forms next week when NASAs next-gen rover, Perseverance, reaches the surface of the Red Planet. Heres what needs to go rightand how things could quickly go sidewayswhen Perseverance tries to make its much-anticipated landing.
For NASA, the entry, descent, and landing (EDL) of Perseverance on Thursday, February 18 presents numerous potential points of failure. NASA has said that hundreds of things have to go just right for the rover to survive the seven minutes of terror….

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