After Mars Rover Lands, NASA May Have Anxious Wait : Discovery News

NASA cheekily refers to the Mars Science Laboratory's complicated landing scenario, a scheme that relies on a flyable platform, supersonic parachutes and an aerial crane, as "the seven minutes of terror." Now, thanks to a glitch that repositioned MSL's primary communications satellite, those seven minutes of terror may be followed by a couple of hours of nail-biting uncertainty over whether the rover arrived safely or not.

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