How do you pick a landing site on Mars and keep both the scientists and engineers happy? Well, sorta like this.
(Link is to an article about the first Mars Science Laboratory landing site workshop. I attended the last half day when I was out at JPL a couple weeks ago.)
And, as an afterthought to my previous entry, I should add that if you think you have to go through a lot of security to get onboard an airplane itself, you should try going to an FAA ATC center! I got wanded, had to turn on my computer to prove it wasn’t a bomb, and then they searched my entire car, inside and out. They were very amused by the baseball bat in the back.
