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The Problem With Landing Humans on Mars (and How to Fix It)


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Rendering Mars landing

Credit: Pat Rawlings / NASA

When NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory—scheduled to lift-off from Cape Canaveral later this week—touches down on the Red Planet in August of 2012, the one-ton probe will be the largest and most complex piece of unmanned machinery ever to land on another world.

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