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Oh yeah, and as far as you might imagine, a retrograde orbit would stress the lander too much in too a short time while aerobraking, because the wind would blow straight in the lander's face. In a prograde orbit, the aerobraking proceeds along the main masses of atmosphere: there's more time to bleed off energy and it's less stressful.