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# Landing on Mars
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/jpl-and-the-space-age/episode/landing-on-mars-6uygju/
- Published: 2025-08-04T19:45:55.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-21T07:35:12.000Z
- Description: Opportunity and Spirit survive "six minutes of terror."
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: JPL and the Space Age, Season 1, Episode 12, #ZZZ_Episode_fcfb3918-5afd-4813-a11f-8ca4ae055abc, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_1fa9cd81-09f7-41c4-9fac-1f45fe7b748d, #v1.16

“Landing on Mars” is the story of Opportunity and Spirit surviving a massive solar flare during cruise, the now well-known “six minutes of terror,” and what came close to being a mission-ending software error for the first rover once it was on the ground.