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(CNN) -- NASA's rover Curiosity successfully carried out a highly challenging landing on Mars early Monday, transmitting images back to Earth after traveling hundreds of millions of miles through space in order to explore the Red Planet.
The $2.6 billion Curiosity made its dramatic arrival on Martian terrain in a spectacle popularly known as the "seven minutes of terror."
This jaw-dropping landing process, involving a sky crane and the world's largest supersonic parachute, allowed the spacecraft carrying Curiosity to target the landing area that scientists had meticulously chosen.
The mission control in NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California burst into cheers as the rover touched down. Team members hugged and high-fived one another as Curiosity beamed back the first pictures from the planet, some shed tears.
Hope there aren't any cats on Mars.
You silly dirtlings finally achieve something and instead you'll be discussing birth certificates all day instead of your major move forward toward joining the inter-galactic federation.
You think I'm kidding. I'm not.
Today, your planet really did something important.
Excellent news. Now let's just push a little more money in and get that manned programme back on track - we should be on Mars by now.
Love how Obama congratulated NASA and claim how great we are, when earlier he trashed the shuttle program....And the funding went to Global Warming research...... Good plan....
....and why is that my anti-cat friend?
Inter-galactic travel is highly improbable given the limitations of c.
Anyways, yay!
Excellent news. Now let's just push a little more money in and get that manned programme back on track - we should be on Mars by now.
Why?Excellent news. Now let's just push a little more money in and get that manned programme back on track - we should be on Mars by now.
Why would we want to be on Mars? There ain't **** there.
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