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Zooming in on Scene of Curiosity's Landing
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, Aug 09 2012 09:46 PM
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Posted 09 August 2012 - 09:46 PM
Zooming in on the Scene of Curiosity's Landing
Follow along on a tour of the landing scene of NASA's Curiosity rover in this video made up of images from two NASA orbiters. The movie begins with a global image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, then switches to views from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. As we zoom closer and closer into Gale Crater, the components of Curiosity's landing system come into view: The heat shield was the first piece to hit the ground, followed by the back shell attached to the parachute, then the rover itself touched down, and finally, after cables were cut, the sky crane flew away to the northwest and crashed.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona › Curiosity's mission site
Source: NASA - Multimedia
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Posted 10 August 2012 - 01:04 AM
Great vid. Thanks for posting Wasp.
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