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Originally Posted by Mull
Did this rover not have any Earth trials to test its landing system? That would be a cool video to see.
I guess with different atmospheres- Earth trials wouldn't provide valuable data for the cost?
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The lander uses Hydrazine which is extremely toxic and its NASA we are talking about here... they need to throw all their money into the ballooning budget of the James Webb telescope
. I'm sure they did many tests in vacuum chambers on the thrusters and many of the systems in computer simulations.
Also, if they did do demo landing tests on Earth I'm sure everybody would be showing those clips before the actual landings instead of computer animations.