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Why are we not landing the sky crane for Peserverance to salvage instead of crashing? We could fly away, inflate balloons like Spirit and Opportunity, and drop it to the surface. There are at least 8 small engines on that thing. Leave it in the balloons until salvage. Remember this number...

Why are we not landing the crane to salvage instead of crashing? We could fly away, inflate balloons like Spirit and Opportunity, and drop to the surface. There are at least 8 small engines on that thing. Leave it in the balloons until salvage. Remember this number, 300,000,000 miles.