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"# Going to Mars with Python using poliastro\n",
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"This is an example on how to use [poliastro](https://github.com/poliastro/poliastro), a little library I've been working on to use in my Astrodynamics lessons. It features conversion between **classical orbital elements** and position vectors, propagation of **Keplerian orbits**, initial orbit determination using the solution of the **Lambert's problem** and **orbit plotting**.\n",
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"In this example we're going to draw the trajectory of the mission [Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)](http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/), which carried the rover Curiosity to the surface of Mars in a period of something less than 9 months.\n",
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"**Note**: This is a very simplistic analysis which doesn't take into account many important factors of the mission, but can serve as an starting point for more serious computations (and as a side effect produces a beautiful plot at the end)."
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