Monday, August 6, 2012

NASA Curiosity Lands on Mars: FIrst Pictures!

NASA's Curiosity rover has landed on Mars! Its descent-stage retrorockets fired, guiding it to the surface. Nylon cords lowered the rover to the ground in the "sky crane" maneuver. When the spacecraft sensed touchdown,...

NASA has released the first pictures from Curiosity and they can be viewed here.

1 comment:

HermitJim said...

This whole thing is just mind boggling! Amazing stuff, if you ask me!