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NASA's Curiosity rover and its parachute were spotted by NASA's Mars

Reconnaissance Orbiter as Curiosity descended to the surface on Aug. 5 PDT

(Aug. 6 EDT). The High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera

captured this image of Curiosity--the rover and its parachute are in the center

of the white box.


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The green diamond shows

approximately where NASA'sCuriosity rover landed on Mars,

a region about 2 kilometers

northeast of its target in the center

of the estimated landing region

(blue ellipse).


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This is one of the first images 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 the left "eye"

of a stereo pair of Hazard-Avoidance cameras on the

left-rear side of the rover.


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In this black and white photo released

by NASA's JPL-Caltech, This is the first

image taken by NASA's Curiosity rover,which landed on Mars the evening of

Aug. 5 a.m. PDT. It was taken through a

"fisheye" wide-angle lens on one of

the rover's front left Hazard-Avoidance

cameras at one-quarter of full

resolution. The clear dust cover on the

camera is still on in this view, and dustcan be seen around its edge.


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A spectator watches a live stream of the Mars Curiosity landing while

listening to an audio broadcast on her phone among the hundreds of other

on-lookers in Times Square, August 6, 2012, in New York. After traveling 8

1/2 months and 352 million miles, Curiosity landed on Mars Sunday night.


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Steve Collins waits during the "Seven Minutes of Terror" as the rover

approaches the surface of mars, inside the Spaceflight Operations

Facility for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover at Jet

Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, The Curiosity robot is

equipped with a nuclear-powered lab capable of vaporizing rocks and

ingesting soil, measuring habitability, and potentially paving the wayfor human exploration.


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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 at Jet

Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.


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This photo released by NASA shows the view from the balcony of the

control rooms at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Dark Room in the

foreground, Deep Space Network control room on the right, and the Mars

Science Laboratory (MSL) Mission Support Area, back left, in Pasadena,

Calif. The MSL Rover named Curiosity is designed to assess whether Mars

ever had an environment able to support small life forms called microbes.


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In this photo released by NASA's JPL, Members Mars Science Laboratory

(MSL) team work in the MSL Mission Support Area at the Jet Propulsion

Laboratory hours ahead of the planned landing of the Curiosity rover on

Mars, Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012 in Pasadena, Calif.


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Shannon Lampton, and Charlene Pittman, both educators with the U.S.

Space and Rocket Center, cheer as they watch NASA's Mars Curiosity

rover land on Mars during a special viewing event at the U.S. Space and

Rocket Center Monday, Aug. 6, 2012 in Huntsville, Ala.


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In a photo provided by NASA, the Mars Science Laboratory team in the

MSL Mission Support Area reacts after learning the the Curiosity rover

has landed safely on Mars and images start coming in at the Jet

Propulsion Laboratory on Mars, Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012 in Pasadena, Calif.


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Alex Trebek in the picture


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Lennon Batchelor, 27, of Orlando, center, pauses while watching a live stream of

the Mars Curiosity landing while neighboring spectators cheer in Times Square

after the successful touch-down, August 6, 2012, in New York. After traveling 8

1/2 months and 352 million miles, Curiosity landed on Mars Sunday night.


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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 at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012.


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Activity lead Bobak Ferdowsi, who cuts his hair differently for each mission,

works inside the Spaceflight Operations Facility for NASA's Mars Science

Laboratory Curiosity rover at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif.


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In this photo provided by NASA, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) team welcomes

White House Science and Technology Advisor John Holdren, third standing from left, as

he stops by to meet the landing team and to say "Go Curiosity" as NASA Administrator

Charles Bolden, second from left, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory Director Charles

Elachi, far left look on, Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012 at JPL in Pasadena, Calif.


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In this photo released by NASA, an empty jar

marked "Days Until Entry" and a jar full of

marbles marked "Days Since Launch" sit on aconference room table during a meeting of the

Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) team at the Jet

Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

The MSL team has been moving one marble

a day since launch from jar to jar.


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This artist's rendering released by NASA/JPL-Caltech on

Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012, shows how NASA's Curiosity rover will

communicate with Earth during landing. As the rover

descends to the surface of Mars, it will send out two different

types of data: basic radio-frequency tones that go directly to

Earth (pink dots) and more complex UHF radio data (bluecircles) that require relaying by orbiters


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NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

director Charles Elachi presents a can of"good luck" peanuts during an overview

of the status and plans for NASA's

Science Mission Directorate at JPL in

Pasadena, Calif., Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012.

After traveling 8 1/2 months and 352

million miles, Curiosity will attempt a

landing on Mars Sunday night.


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In this file photo taken Adam Steltzner,

Mars Science Laboratory's entry, descentand landing phase leader at JPL uses a

scale model to explains the Curiosity

rover's Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL)

during the Mission Engineering Overview

news briefing at NASA's Jet Propulsion

Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.


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This Aug. 2, 2012 file photo shows Nick Lam, data controller, monitoring

the Mars rover Curiosity from the Deep Space Network's control room at

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. NASA's Curiosity rover

is zooming toward Mars. With about a day to go until a landing attempt,

the space agency says the nuclear-powered rover appears on course.


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(From L) John Grunsfeld, NASA associate administrator, Richard Cook,

MSL deputy project manager, Pete Theisinger, MSL project manager, Adam

Steltzner, MSL entry, descent and landing (EDL) lead and John Grotzinger,

MSL project scientist from the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)


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A visitor takes a photo of a sign reading 'Rover Xing' at the Jet

Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California August 2,

2012 ahead of the landing of the Mars rover Curiosity


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Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission members work in the data processing

room beside Mission Control at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena,

California August 2, 2012 ahead of the landing of the Mars rover Curiosity.


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Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity members from left: Richard Cook, MSL deputy project

manager, Adam Steltzner, MSL entry, descent and landing (EDL) lead and John Grotzinger,

MSL project scientist, California Institute of Technology, from the Mars Science Laboratory

(MSL) Curiosity Rover mission team celebrate the landing of Curiosity rover on the surface

of Mars at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.,


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The target landing area for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission

was the ellipse marked on this image of Gale Crater. The ellipse is

about 12 miles long and 4 miles wide (20 kilometers by 7 kilometers).


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A June 2012 revision of the landing target area for Curiosity, the big rover of NASA's Mars

Science Laboratory mission, reduced the area's size. It also put the center of the landing area

closer to Mount Sharp, which bears geological layers that are the mission's prime destination.


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This set of images compares test images taken by four cameras on NASA's Curiosity rover at

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory before launch.


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This image shows the topography, with

shading added, around the area whereNASA's Curiosity rover is slated to land.

Red indicates higher areas and purple

indicates lower areas, with a total

elevation range of about 600 feet

(nearly 200 meters). The red oval

indicates the targeted landing area for

the rover known as the "landing ellipse


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This is a close-up view of the northern two-thirds of one of the quadrangles (number 50) that we

mapped onto the landing region of NASA's Curiosity rover. Note the presence of layered deposits

around the rim of an impact crater, as well as along a scarp that traces through the center of the

quad. These exposures are reminiscent of the terrain studied by NASA's Opportunity rover, where

exploration was limited to the layered deposits exposed along the flanks of craters.


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This image shows engineers

predictions of where NASA'sCuriosity rover would enter the

atmosphere of Mars on Aug. 5

PDT (Aug. 6 EDT). The

background image is a false-

color image from the Thermal

Emission Imaging System

(THEMIS) camera on NASA's

Mars Odyssey spacecraft.


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Painting demo by members of

the International Association ofAstronomical Artists. Four

artists are working on this

image of Curiosity on Mars with

the point of view being from

the Gale Crater. The painting

will be presented to Bill Nye.

The two men in the photos areartists Aldo Spadoni (left) and

Jon Ramer (right) of IAAA.


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We had a big party at Riff Raff Studio in Silver Lake in Los Angeles.

There were red lights fittingly bathing the party in a Martian glow.


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