NASA's Curiosity Lands On Mars

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The four main pieces of hardware that arrived on Mars with NASA's Curiosity rover were spotted by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

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This image comparison shows a view through a Hazard-Avoidance camera on NASA's Curiosity rover before and after the clear dust cover was removed. Mount Sharp, the mission's ultimate destination, looms ahead.

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This color 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 diameter heat shield when it was about 50 feet from the spacecraft.

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NASA's Curiosity rover and its parachute are seen by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as Curiosity descends to the surface of Mars.

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This close-up view shows darkened radial jets caused by the impact of Curiosity's sky crane, which helped deliver the rover to the surface of Mars.

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The head of the remote sensing mast on the Mars Science Laboratory mission's rover, Curiosity, shows seven of the 17 cameras on the rover.

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NASA's Curiosity rover takes its first image after landing on Mars Sunday, Aug. 5.

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Engineers work on a model of the Mars Curiosity rover at the Spacecraft Assembly Facility in Pasadena, California prior to its launch on August 5.

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Flight Systems Chief Engineer Rob Manning, left, watches MSL Flight Director Keith Comeaux move the final marble from a jar marked "Days Until Entry" to the jar marked "Days Since Launch" at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

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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 in Pasadena, Calif.

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David Oh works inside the Spaceflight Operations Facility for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

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Facundo Lucci, 22, of Philadelphia, watches a live stream of the Mars Curiosity rover landing along with hundreds of other spectators in Times Square, N.Y.

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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden smiles as the rover begins its decent to the surface of Mars, inside the Spaceflight Operations Facility for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover.

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Christopher J. Scolese, Director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, left, congratulates, MSL Entry, Descent and Landing Engineer Adam Steltzner as they look at the first images from the Curiosity rover shortly after it landed on Mars.

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Peter Ilott, center, and his colleagues celebrate a successful landing inside the Spaceflight Operations Facility for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

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Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity members raise their arms to celebrate the landing of the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars.

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