Simulating the Curiosity rover’s final approach and landing was a major feat for everyone involved (VIDEO), as NASA used Siemens PLM Software to account for the thousands of data points (in over half a million lines of code) to recreate the out-of-this-world conditions needed to test the final minutes of Curiosity’s journey to Mars.
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