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hey Tex, since your approach to Mars was a hyperbolic orbit, wouldn't it be an Aerocapture instead of an Aerobrake?
Possibly, however if you noticed once I was within Mar's gravity I did a retrograde burn to loose the majority of that velocity which nearly put me in orbit around Mars from that manouver alone. I attempted to aerobrake without doing the retrograde burn first, but I couldn't loose enough velocity without burning up, so no matter how you look at it I was gonna have to do a retrograde burn.
TBH I have no idea which would be correct, but it's close enough. I just wanted to capture the magic of Orbiter working with the MFDs etc.