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>> now we'll see where curiosity will take us. >> that was a control room full of rocket scientists at nasa's jet propulsion lab in pasadena, geeking out over the successful landing of the mars curiosity rover. and it is safe to say that their intense celebration is directly proportional to the aerospace engineering feat that they are celebrating here. the rover is theize of a car. it weighs about a ton, which means it's too big and too heavy to land using the only ways we have successfully ever put anything on mars before. so engineers had to come up with a really novel and sort of crazy plan...

>> now we'll see where curiosity will take us. >> that was a control room full of rocket scientists at nasa's jet propulsion lab in pasadena, geeking out over the successful landing of the mars curiosity rover. and it is safe to say that their intense celebration is directly proportional to the aerospace engineering feat that they are celebring here. the rover is the size of a car. it weighs about a ton, which means it's too big and too heavy to land using the only ways we have successfully ever put anything on mars before. so engineers had to come up with a really novel and sort of crazy plan...