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NASA releases low-res video of Mars rover descent NASA's Curiosity rover has transmitted a low-resolution video showing the last 2 1/2 minutes of its white-knuckle dive through the Martian atmosphere, giving earthlings a sneak peek of a spacecraft landing on another world. NASA cheers Mars landing, welcomes new photos NASA celebrated the precision landing of a rover on Mars and marveled over the mission's first photographs Monday — grainy, black-and-white images of Martian gravel, a mountain at sunset and, most exciting of all, the spacecraft's white-knuckle plunge through the red planet's atmosphere. NASA lands rover on Mars to seek signs of life NASA opened a new chapter in the history of interplanetary exploration on Monday when its $2.5 billion nuclear-powered robot Curiosity beamed back pictures from the surface of Mars. NASA welcomes striking new views from the red planet after Mars rover nails the landing PASADENA, Calif. - NASA's Curiosity rover on Monday transmitted a low-resolution video showing the last 2 1/2 minutes of its white-knuckle dive through the Mars atmosphere, giving Earthlings a sneak peek of a spacecraft landing on another world. NASA rover begins nail-biting Mars plunge NASA's most high-tech Mars rover plunged into the red planet's atmosphere Sunday night in an attempt to safely reach the surface with a complex new landing technique. NASA Showered with Praise After Amazing Mars Rover Landing NASA's Mars rover Curiosity successfully landed on the Red Planet late Sunday night (Aug. 5), marking a historic moment in the history of robotic Mars exploration. NASA Is the Government's One True Viral Hit Factory NASA may only consume 0.5 percent of the federal budget, but it generates practically all of Uncle Sam's viral marketing buzz. Never was that more apparent than on Monday morning following the successful Mars landing of Curiosity, the biggest and most advanced spacecraft ever dispatched to another planet. In an explosion of tweets, Tumbls, status updates, and blog posts, the Internet showed its ... NASA Sends First Images of Rover on Mars NASA released a photograph showing the rover still encased in the descent capsule, sailing under a parachute. NASA's Mars rover sends back stunning pictures After its first day on Mars, NASA's rover sent back to Earth stunning images of its crater landing site and the mountain it aims to climb in the hunt for signs of life. NASA: Mars Curiosity Beams First High-Res Pic In an almost giddy late-night press conference, the NASA Mars laboratory Science team celebrated the Curiosity Rover's successful landing on a "nice, flat spot -- beautiful, really beautiful" on Mars. It's a patch of dusty land that's since been immortalized in a couple of low-resolution thumbnails that arrived at mission control moments after Curiosity touched down. Now there's a new pic -- and ...
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