InSight: How a NASA engineer uses a highschool physics equation to predict Mars Landing

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Could you run thousands of lines of code and createcomputer-based simulations to predict a Mars

Landing? Probably. NASA InSight aerospace engineerCarlie Zumwalt says the complex problem boils downto a simple physics equation we all learned in highschool.