7 Minutes Of Terror

The landing procedure from when we touch the atmosphere of a planet to touchdown is called 7 minutes of terror

• The engines fire before reaching Mars, to slow down the rocket a bit
• We enter Mars atmosphere, ReEntry begins to heat our spaceship, now the Heat shield side is facing it
• We survive ReEntry, and are flying above Mars, thanks to its wings
• We backfire engines, and cancel the horizontal velocity, so now we are falling straight down
• When near to the surface, the landing gears deploy, Engines fire, and we slowly touchdown
• We finally landed on Mars :)