The guys at NASA look to be super stoked because after years of planning and a few gazillion dollars later, they landed the Mars Curiosity Rover on the surface of the planet successfully in the early hours of this morning!
Here is a video of the guys getting super excited about it all and the first images are below!
Here are the first images sent back to NASA from the Mars Curiosity Rover that touched down in the early hours of Monday the 6th of August 2012.
Curiosity Snaps Picture of Its Shadow
This is the first image taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars the evening of Aug. 5 PDT (morning of Aug. 6 EDT). It was taken through a “fisheye” wide-angle lens on one of the rover’s rear left Hazard-Avoidance cameras at one-quarter of full resolution. The clear dust cover on the camera is still on in this view, and dust can be seen around its edge, along with three cover fasteners.
This graphic shows the locations of the cameras on NASA’s Curiosity rover. The rover’s mast features seven cameras: the Remote Micro Imager, part of the Chemistry and Camera suite; four black-and-white Navigation Cameras (two on the left and two on the right) and two color Mast Cameras (Mastcams). The left Mastcam has a 34-millimeter lens and the right Mastcam has a 100-millimeter lens.
This is the path that was projected for the Curiosity Landing on Mars
