Successful landing on Mars, Curiosity Send Photos

The size of a robotic rover vehicle or car owned by the U.S. space agency, called Curiosity managed to land on the Martian surface. Thus, Curiosity ready to fulfill its mission to search for life on the red planet.

As a science fiction film, Curiosity landed after making a number of manufer through the atmosphere of Mars. After experiencing a stressful process, citing Space.com page, this rover's wheels touched the surface of Mars at about U.S. time or 1:31 (05:17 GMT / 12:17 BST).

At least it took about 14 minutes to send a signal Curiosity successful landing on Mars.

"The landing is confirmed. Arrive safely on Mars," confirmed a statement from the mission control room.

Once confirmation was announced, suddenly the excitement felt in the mission control room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, U.S..

The landing process

After experiencing a shock when I entered the Martian atmosphere with a speed of 21 000 kilometers per hour, a vehicle that contains a space shuttle Curiosity was soon issued a parachute to slow the pace of up to 320 km per hour.

This vehicle then continued to fire rockets to slow its speed to 3.2 miles per hour. At this tension mounted, which dubbed the seven-minute thriller.

Space rocket with a crane and then lowered to the surface of Mars Curiosity by using a cable. after that, Curiosity was removed and the land. The six wheeled rover was also to touch the surface of Mars.

Soon, the rover was also sent the first picture in the atmosphere of Mars after landing. In a televised broadcast streaming NASA, there was a couple of times a statement that the rover sends its images, which also looks a shadow.
NASA was then upload the photos to your Twitter account NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in @ NASAJPL. The following picture: