Landing Sequence

Pick a body. Land safely. Beat your best score.

Choose Body

Moon

Surface gravity: 1.62 m/s²

The Moon is slowly drifting away from Earth at about 3.8 cm per year.

Difficulty

Vertical landing only

Controls

› Hold SPACE to fire thrusters
› Land on the pad with low velocity
› Conserve fuel for bonus points

About Landing Sequence

Land the same lander on 8 different worlds and the controls feel completely different every time, because each body's real surface gravity changes how much thrust you need and how fast you fall. The Moon's gravity is about a sixth of Earth's, so landings feel floaty and forgiving; Titan has a thick atmosphere that slows descent on its own; Mars sits in between, with just enough gravity and just enough atmosphere to make it genuinely tricky.

It's the same core challenge every real planetary landing faces — burn too much fuel too early and you can't correct later; burn too little and you don't stop in time.

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The engineering behind real landings on the Moon, Mars, and Titan — the same 8 bodies you can land on here.

Spacecraft Landing Physics: Interactive Lesson

Surface gravity, thrust-to-weight ratio, and real landing profiles from Apollo 11, Perseverance, and Huygens.