Curiosity

[MarillionFan]

First images of Curiosity at it's landing spot.

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[Pondlife]

I had a rover once. It wouldn't make it to Swansea nevermind Mars.

[gingerjedi]

Mars Rover Rocker-Bogie Differential

Great explanation, I'm tempted to get a lego technic set.

[NickFitz]

Amazing photo from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of Curiosity's descent:

And 4fps stop-motion video from the beast itself, looking down to the Martian surface as it landed:

You can see Zeity just near top right at the 21s mark

[Spacecadet]

They did it!

Another frontier of human exploration has begun, I wonder how long before a wheel gets stuck?

I'm sure opportunity was stuck and after 6 weeks they got it free.
It took that long as the engineers on Earth first created a mockup and experimented with that before sending command signals to the rover.

[SimonMac]

[darrenb]

Even more incredible, if you can take any more, is that there is very recent speculation that liquid water is flowing on Mars to this very day.

We have plenty of that already. You need to show there's liquid oil or at least liquid whiskey flowing on Mars, or people are not going to want to go.

And you have to show real photos of it, and not the cartoons I keep seeing.