Curiosity on the way down

[steuard]

This is an absolutely stunning image: the Curiosity rover spotted while descending to the Martian surface, dangling under its parachute. It took some tremendously careful calculations by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter team (and some good luck) to snap this shot of a fast-moving object in the few moments available (they had to aim the camera in

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[kirinn]

Oh cool, I hadn't seen the photo *with the heat shield* from your update.

Eagerly anticipating being really blown away when they finally take the dust shield off the color camera later in the week...