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When a spacecraft is sent to another planet to land on the surface, how do scientists know where it really landed? Two rovers have been sent to Mars. The landing ellipses are approximately 62 miles (~100 km) by 12.5 miles (~20 km) in size. The rover teams will determine the exact location of the rover landing site within the ellipse using a combination of orbital maps, ground-based observations, and triangulation.
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