PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Viewers can now relive the drama of the Curiosity rover's landing on Mars with a new NASA video detailing the final moments of touchdown.
The space agency Thursday posted the video
on its website embedded with audio from mission control. It starts with
the heat shield falling away. The ground grows larger in view as Curiosity is lowered by cables inside an ancient Martian crater. "Touchdown confirmed" is heard followed by cheers.
Curiosity
is the first spacecraft to record a landing on another planet. The
six-wheel rover arrived on Aug. 5 to begin a two-year mission to examine
whether the Martian environment was hospitable for microbial life.
NASA
previously released a low-quality video of Curiosity's landing. The
latest video is higher quality, but it's incomplete and missing several
frames.
via: news.yahoo.com
