NASA’s Curiosity robot has spent eight months travelling from Earth to Mars. Also known as the Mars Science Laboratory - the robot has covered more than 560 million km from Earth and approached Mars at close to 13,000 km/hr on Sunday. By the time Curiosity landed, she was speeding at more than 21,000 km/hr, dropping towards the red planet.
The vehicle landed at Gale Crater, a deep depression just south of the planet's equator and the flight trajectory was so good that some of the planned course corrections were proved unnecessary.
(image courtesy NASA)
Here is the first picture of Mars from Curiosity. (image courtesy NASA live stream)
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The vehicle landed at Gale Crater, a deep depression just south of the planet's equator and the flight trajectory was so good that some of the planned course corrections were proved unnecessary.
(image courtesy NASA)
Here is the first picture of Mars from Curiosity. (image courtesy NASA live stream)
and one more
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