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Nasa has used one of its satellites to image the Curiosity rover on Mars.The picture shows not only the six-wheeled vehicle, but also all the components of its discarded landing system.These items include the heatshield, the parachute and backshell of the entry capsule, and the skycrane that lowered the rover to the surface.The image was acquired by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter from 300km and at an oblique angle of 41 degrees.
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NASA's newly landed Curiosity rover is busy taking pictures, roving, and just being awesome on another planet. A few of Curiosity's pictures revealed, for lack of a more appropriate word, some curiosities of their own, including a m... Read Post

This color-enhanced view -- taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as the satellite flew overhead -- shows the terrain around the rover's landing site within Gale Crate... Read Post

This stop-motion video shows the 297 pictures that were taken by the Mars Descent Imager as it “dropped” NASA’s Curiosity rover down on the surface of Mars. Yeah, I know, we don’t see much, but hey, this is still better than nothing... Read Post