Touchdown! Curiosity is Wheels Down on Mars!

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There’s a few dozen celebrating mission control members at JPL right now as Curiosity, the newest and biggest rover from NASA, has safely gone wheels-down on Mars. The absolutely crazy, insane landing procedure looked like something out of a Michael Bay film, but the engineers at JPL and NASA have pulled it off.

Curiosity is the most advance rover to set wheels on Mars. It’s intricate and complex science equipment will hopefully be able to give us a glimpse as to the history of water on the Red Planet and whether or not it was ever capable of supporting life and, more importantly, whether life has ever been there. Here’s one of Curiosity’s first images from Gale Crater.

To celebrate the occasion, Curiosity quoted the philosopher Wheaton

Space. It’s frakking awesome.