NASA’s most advanced Mars rover Curiosity landed on the Red Planet at 10:32 p.m. Aug. 5, PDT, (1:32 a.m. EDT Aug. 6) near the foot of a mountain three miles tall and 96 miles in diameter inside Gale Crater. The one-ton rover, hanging by ropes from a rocket backpack, touched down onto Mars Sunday to end a 36-week flight and begin a two-year investigation.
For more information about this spectacular feat, visit https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20120805c.html