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NASA Mars rover landing becomes YouTube hit

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    'Seven Minutes of Terror' goes viral

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When people look at it.

It looks crazy.

It's a very natural thing.

And who we look at.

That is one of NASA's biggest scientists.

Talking about America's next mission to Mars.

He's also one of the unlikely stars of a new hit viral video.

It features engineers talking about how -- NASA will land the next rover on the red planet.

Some who watch the video comparing it to trailers for Hollywood's biggest blockbusters.

Trace Gallagher has more live -- -- -- -- -- -- to show you more this thing but look you gotta go online look out of yourself because it's really well done I mean.

The real Mars rover lands on August 5 or crashes down depending on whose -- -- you go to August 5 which is where the whole terms seven minutes of terror comes in.

Not watch this first part listen.

Entry descent and landing.

Paulson -- EL record for just seven minutes of terror because we've got literally seven minutes.

You get from atop the atmosphere -- surface of Mars.

Like thirteen thousand miles an hour to zero.

You don't really does play or watch like a movie trailer you -- music in the background the dude dude got an Armageddon kind of team there it's very cool -- like other federal agencies NASA is not allowed to spend money to kind of -- its own -- to advertise right so they put this thing together they put it -- -- and they hoped it would go viral and did it ever.

A half million hits on you to.

Here's more of -- watch.

-- It's actually really hard to slow down.

Because it has just enough atmosphere that you have to deal otherwise it will destroy spacecraft.

On the other hand it doesn't have enough atmosphere.

To finish the job.

In reality seven minutes of terror Megan is actually 21 minutes of suspense because Rover's radio signal takes fourteen minutes to get.

A 150 million miles away on Mars back to.

Earth.

That's assuming it makes it listen again.

Again -- -- in the it's.

-- -- Engines all the way to the ground decision tree nuts -- Maybe Soledad.

-- -- -- -- -- Forty -- about mr.

Have to lower the -- -- one.

Did you set it down like Star -- and then boom they just blast kind of a way to 2.5 billion dollar mission to see if the building blocks of life.

You know oxygen nitrogen carbon.

Actually existed on early Mars by the way curiosity -- she forgot blasted off eight and a half months ago.

And is just now trying to get ready to finish that 150 million mile journey very cool to go online watch the whole thing mega hits like five and a -- six minutes long.

Very cool great reports yeah erase bank -- there sure I.

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