“Touchdown Confirmed.”
Heh – Curiosity is barely down (what, two minutes?) and they already have images coming in.
The images are dust-obscured because the dust kicked up by the landing is still swirling around.
That’s impressive.
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August 10th, 2012 at 9:27 pm
The Tech Museum in San Jose had a screen running a loop of the touchdown, jubilation in the control room, and the first images coming through. Pretty cool.
August 12th, 2012 at 8:17 pm
I was going to attend the party at the science museum here in Denver, but I put off ordering my ticket a couple of hours too long.