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Originally Posted by Mull
Is mission control making any adjustments to the rover as it lands?
Or is it all pre-programmed?
Wouldn't the distance and time delay with the speed of light make it impossible for mission control to make any meaningful changes to it as it lands?
Follow-up, they just said the parachute deployed, with the time delay for info to come back to earth, does that mean it deployed in reality 14min ago?
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Yup by the time the signals were received that it had entered the atmosphere the rover had already landed.
It's all pre-programmed, the lander lands itself.