Mars Rover: The Landing, The Pictures, The Celebration

Video - Mars Rover touches down successfully - Aug. 6, 2012

Mission control bursts into applause after receiving landing signals and the first pictures from the Mars rover Curiosity - August 6, 2012

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Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror:

Experts at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( JPL ) share the challenges of Curiosity's rover final 7 minutes to landing on the surface of Mars.

Curiosity is a Mars rover launched by NASA on November 26, 2011. Currently en route to the planet, it is scheduled to land in Gale Crater on August 5, 2012 (US Pacific time). The rover's objectives include searching for past or present life, studying the Martian climate, studying Martian geology, and collecting data for a future manned mission to Mars. It will explore Mars for 2 years.

Comments

[S. Gompers]

Awesome achievement.

[TR]

Well..
http://i.imgur.com/HC9I1.png

[TR]

Let's see what we can do to Mars.
http://www.sfu.ca/pamr/media-releases/2012/study-predicts-imminent-irreversible-planetary-collapse.html

[Texas Dar]

Well, the goverment and big buissnes have done more damage to our planet in the last 100yrs. than all the years before 1900.

On Mars, it should only take them 50yrs. Mars has No Air, and No Water, to poulte and add chemicals to force people to drink and breath......

The pics aut to be great in the Mo. to come........

[DailyBail]

TR

Awesome photo. I'm going to add it to the story.