Curiosity Lands on Mars

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) 

The 70 meter communications dish that is tracking NASA's Mars science laboratory at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Station at Tidbinbilla in Canberra, Australia, on August 6th, 2012. (Mark Graham/AFP/Getty Images) 

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)