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Originally Posted by Noah930
So use of the flying crane made the degree of difficulty that much greater?
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It dropped like 20 meters I believe, after the flying crane had punched through the adtmosphere, jettisoned the heat shield, deployed the parachutes, slowed to 1.7 mph or something, extended the big long cable with the rover, and then used the retro-rockets until it got close to the surface.
I would be nervous about dropping something so expensive, sensitive, and built to a light weight that far.
Edit: I was wrong. It was a soft landing with the crane, which makes sense. I had heard some news source say that it "dropped" 20 meters but that was apparently figurative language.