No, not more UFO crap. It's a NASA mission to Mars (you know, that planet we will eventually need to move to, when the Sun gets hotter).
The landing is on May 25th. It's very complicated;
Aerobrake with heat shield
Deploy parachute at 900 miles an hour (what could possibly go wrong?)
Fire engines to plop safely on the surface
They made a pretty cool video http://mfile.akamai.com/20356/mov/etouchsyst2.download.akamai.com/18355/qt.nasa-global/ccvideos/jpl/phx20080327-480cc.mov
It's scary because if any one thing goes wrong, it's another embarrasing crashed probe and a total waste of time and money, so cross your fingers on the 25th!
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