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With the new perseverance rover about to launch to mars, I have a question about landers and rover orbital trajectories. Do the landers/rovers circularize their orbit before landing on the body or do they go for a direct landing?

I've noticed landers on the moon generally circularize their orbit before landing (I'm not 100% sure of this) but for something like a Mars lander they do not?

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