Welcome back to Payload Fairing, I am Salem Al Mazrouei. Today we talk about the seven minutes that engineers call the seven minutes of terror, the time between a Mars spacecraft touching the atmosphere and touching the ground. Here is the strange part. Because of the radio delay, by the time the team on Earth sees the entry begin, the landing has already happened one way or the other. Nobody can help. My guest is flight controller Priya Raman, who sat at a console for one of these, and she walks us through every stage: the heat shield, the parachute, the rockets, the cable that lowers the rover like a crane. I will add what our Hope team learned from watching. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts. Seat belts on.