[Pierre-Marie Baty]

Too bad the european (english) module which was supposed to land on Mars only a few days before hasn't succeeded too... it used the same method for landing as the one of the NASA, thermal shield, parachute and big airbags to bounce on the ground until fully stabilized, but it did not use retropropulsors. I suppose that's what made the difference.

Anyway congratulations to the scientists! I hope that will provide a good lift to the NASA after the spaceship accident which happened some time ago.