The so - called sky crane system is also what the space agency used on the Curiosity rover descent in August 2012. (techtimes.com)
A rocket - powered sky crane had lowered the 1 - ton rover to the Martian surface on cables, after parachuting through the planet's thin atmosphere. (businessinsider.com)
Our family rented small summer apartments on Long Island and returned each Labor Day to see the city new yet distressed ¯ fresh excavations, more steel frames covered with thin glass skin, sky cranes hoisting tons of stuff forty stories or more. (firstthings.com)