NASA Curiosity Rover Mars entry parachute deceleration question

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Can someone please point me to a deceleration graph over the 7 minutes of terror from the 13,000 mph re-entry speed through to the parachute release and landing of the Curiosity Rover on Mars?

Thanks very much. :smile:

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Brynjolf
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Google "curiosity landing". You should be able to find something.
 
You know, I also thought after reading this that it be really interesting to see a graph like that. I looked everywhere--no joy. Maybe this would be a good question to fire off to Mohawk Guy at JPL. Surely they have the data...
 
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