Mars Curiosity Rover Landing a Success — NASA Jubilant | National Geographic

capping a 36 week voyage from Earth to
Mars the Curiosity spacecraft landing
was one of the most complicated ever
attempted the NASA named seven minutes
of Terror
cast without disappointment I can also
only think about the Olympians here we
had our team which went is all Olympics
we were not sure we’re going to win but
this in one of the last complicated
computer program technical landing
maneuvers a sky crane lowered the rover
onto Mars
wheels down and later curiosity rewarded
its creators with the first black and
white images of what it sees one of
those wheels in the foreground before
this image was captured a dust cover
over the camera lens was sprung open and
part of the spring that released it is
seen at the bottom right near the
rover’s wheel other cameras on the rover
will send back color images after the
rover’s mast carrying high-resolution
cameras is deployed NASA hopes curiosity
will spend two years roving the Mars
surface investigating whether the region
ever offered conditions favorable for
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