The Curiosity rover landed safely on Mars early Monday morning. The rover will spend two years exploring the red planet looking for signs of life. Today, Warren talked to JPL’s Allen Chen and Discovery News’ Ian O’Neill about the excitement at Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the safe landing.
Here’s more from The New York Times:
As the drama of the landing unfolded, each step proceeded without flaw. The capsule entered the atmosphere at the appointed time, with thrusters guiding it toward the crater. The parachute deployed. Then the rover and rocket stage dropped away from the parachute and began a powered descent toward the surface, and the sky crane maneuver worked as designed.
“Touchdown confirmed,” Allen Chen, an engineer in the control room, said at 1:32 a.m. Eastern time, followed by cheers, hugs and high-fives.
Here’s video from JPL as the rover touched down.
And head over to NASA’s website for more photos.
This is one of the first images taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars the evening of Aug. 5 PDT (morning of Aug. 6 EDT).
How exciting!! Every step is another step forward when it comes to space exploration.
Superb success for NASA! Finally they have invented new planet after lots of hard working. So definitely it was an exciting news for everyone and awfully we will get more news like this from them in near future as well and i am waiting for that. Thanks
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