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Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror[edit]

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Original – NASA video explaining Curiosity's atmospheric entry, descent, and landing. NASA called the EDL procedure "Seven Minutes of Terror".
Reason
High EV video explaining the atmospheric entry, descent, and landing of Curiosity and the Mars Science Laboratory
Articles in which this image appears
Mars Science Laboratory
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Getting there
Creator
NASA
  • Support as nominator --Pine 04:02, 16 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Excellent quality and strong EV (including in its own right; various media outlets wrote articles arguing that this dramatic video was significant as it was very well made and generated considerable interest in the landing). Nick-D (talk) 10:33, 17 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • SUpport: FPC requires that this be the best medium we have; we have nothing like this. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 15:58, 19 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support per Nick-D Spongie555 (talk) 19:16, 19 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support per all. gazhiley 10:24, 20 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support as per all above. --WingtipvorteX PTT 16:31, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support per anything! ObtundTalk 18:03, 24 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror.ogv --Makeemlighter (talk) 17:27, 26 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]