05 Aug 2012, 10:23 PM., the particular initiatives associated with 406 Their astronauts team members and three,500 Plane Propulsion Clinical staff, with the help of teams from 7 other nations around the world, securely ended up the one-ton nuclear-powered rover on the surface associated with Mars. The complicated series of landing maneuvers necessary to sluggish the large spacecraft travelled in accordance with plan, after that your rocket-suspended sky motorised hoist carefully handled Curiosity straight down. Moments after getting, the particular rover sent photos, credit reporting risk-free arrival, and also triggering get-togethers simply by downline and audiences around the globe -- at home, by yourself, or even together in viewing parties. Obtained here is a variety of photos with the landing, along with brand new images from your the surface of Mars.
An
image used
through
NASA's Mars research
rover Curiosity displays
exactly
what lies
ahead for
the rover -- the
primary
technology
goal,
Attach
Razor-sharp,
in
this photograph
introduced
simply
by Their
astronauts on
July
6,
Next
year. The
actual rover's shadow
may
be seen in the
actual forefront,
as
well as the darker
bands
past
tend
to be sand
hills. Growing
upwards
inside
the distance
is
actually Install
Razor-sharp
at
a height
of
approximately Three.Several
a
long way, taller
than
Mt. Whitney in
Los
angeles. The
Curiosity staff
hopes
they
are driving the
particular rover to
the pile
to
research the
lower
tiers,
that
scientists
think
keep
clues
to
be able to earlier
ecological
change.
The
look has
been linearized to
eliminate the
actual altered
appearance
which
comes
from it's
fisheye lens.
(Reuters/NASA-JPL-Caltech)
Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission members work in the data processing room beside Mission Control at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, on August 2, 2012 ahead of the landing of the Mars rover Curiosity.
About 350 area residents gathered at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Vistor Center to view a presentation on the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instriument and to view NASA's coverage of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) landing. (NASA/Goddard)
Mars Science Laboratory Flight Director Keith Comeaux (left) talks to his team inside the Spaceflight Operations Facility for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, on August 5, 2012. (Reuters/Brian van der Brug)
Steve Collins waits during the "Seven Minutes of Terror", as the rover approaches the surface of mars, inside the Spaceflight Operations Facility for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, on August 5, 2012 in Pasadena. (Brian van der Brug/Getty Images)
Image captured from a video shows members of the Mars Science Laboratory team celebrating inside the Spaceflight Operations Facility for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, after receiving the first few images from the Curiosity rover, in Pasadena, on August 5, 2012. (Reuters/Courtesy NASA TV)
This color thumbnail image was obtained by NASA's Curiosity rover during its descent to the surface of Mars on August 5. The image was obtained by the Mars Descent Imager instrument known as MARDI and shows the 15-foot (4.5-meter) diameter heat shield falling away, when it was about 50 feet (16 meters) from the spacecraft. It was obtained two and one-half minutes before touching down on the surface of Mars and about three seconds after heat shield separation. It is among the first color images Curiosity sent back from Mars. (NASA)
(1 of 2) An orbiting probe sent to Mars previously by NASA, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), looked down on August 5 and managed to catch a glimpse of the newest member of NASA's robotic Mars team as it parachuted to the surface. If you look closely, at the lower right, you can see two white dots, the upper one is the the parachute, the lower, the spacecraft and backshell. See next image for a closer view. (NASA)
(2 of 2) A closer view of Curiosity parachuting through the Martian atmosphere, imaged by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on August 5. This image was made about one minute prior to landing. (NASA)
One of the first images taken by NASA's Curiosity rover, transmitted to Spaceflight Operations Facility in Pasadena, California. The rover's rear left wheel is visible at lower right.(NASA/JPL-Caltech via Getty Images)
Jennifer Trosper, Mars Science Laboratory mission manager, points out the communications antenna on a model of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity as she speaks during a news conference at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, on August 6, 2012. (Reuters/Fred Prouser)