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How can you possibly play video games with 14 minutes worth of lag? There's some awesome engineering behind landing a rover on Mars.

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This new video just makes me more apprehensive about that retro-rocket pack deploying so soon after the parachute jettison. This is going to be a nail biter for sure.

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