{# The blink of the standing sky. Patches of the black of space lie over the star field and fade in and out on their own timers, so only parts of the sky dim at a time instead of the whole field blinking at once. Four across by seven down, which is square on this screen. The count has to match the grid in the SCSS; the JS blinks however many it finds. See EDL.twinklePatch. #} {# One sky for the whole descent, outside the stages: it travels from the moment the atmosphere shows up until the ship lands, and a copy per stage would break that travel at every cross-fade. Nothing about it is staged, it fades in and thickens on its own, see EDL.fadeSkyToAtmosphere. #} {# Nothing of its own, it is what the arcs of stage 1 are cross-faded out against when the atmosphere takes over. #} {# Empty too: the ground of this stage is the image below, which moves into place instead of fading in with a stage. #} {# The ground of Mars. It is outside the stages because it does not fade in: it comes up from the bottom right during the landing and stays there for the rest of the run. See EDL.landOnMars. #} {# The shadow the ship casts on the surface as it comes down. It sits on the spot the legs land on and grows into place over the last of the fall, so the ship reads as closing in on the ground rather than meeting it. In here, so it is over the ground and under the ship, which is in its own container. See EDL.dropOntoMars. #} {# The dust the engines blow off the ground as the ship lands, the part of it behind the ship. Its front half is over the ship, after the ship container. See DustCloud. #}

{# The path the entry is flown along. It stays put, it is what the ship is being lined up with. Only up for the align run. #} {# Outside the steered box on purpose, so it bends the trajectory lines behind it rather than the ship in front of it. Steered by the same numbers from the align action. #}