[Telepathic Intruder]

They had to build the thing as light as possible to save fuel. Add that to the unintended lateral velocity of 2 mph upon landing, and the low gravity causing it to flip when one of the legs caught on a rock or something, so the current theory goes. Whatever happened was likely not just one person’s fault.

[verum ago]

unintended lateral velocity of 2 mph upon landing

Oof, I hadn't heard that the lateral was that high. Almost 3 ft/s. Yeah, that could cause problems. Still remarkable that they were able to just patch in the NASA LiDAR to replace their bad nav lasers and land anyway.