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One of the major problems of planetary exploration is landing a probe safely on another planet. Landers and rovers need to touch down in a very particular, usually flat area. The fact that the team only ever gets one attempt at it makes the process an extremely risky event, with disastrous and expensive repercussions following any kind of mistake during the nail-biting process.
Fleet landers, proposed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory team at
