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Marking the most striving effort to reach Mars in history, NASA has successfully landed its $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory and Curiosity rover on the face of the Red Planet. It was a huge day for the American people, huge day for the entire nation and it was a huge day for all of the partners who have contributed something on Curiosity.
NASA administrator Charles Bolden said, “Touchdown confirmed,” “We are wheels down on Mars. Oh my God.”
President Barack Obama explaind the feat as a singular source of American pride, “The successful landing of Curiosity – the most sophisticated roving laboratory ever to land on another planet – marks an unprecedented feat of technology that will stand as a point of national pride far into the future,” he said in a statement. He added, “It proves that even the longest of odds are no match for our unique blend of ingenuity and determination.”
An unclear image of the rover’s wheel on the surface of Mars, taken from a back camera on the vehicle, confirmed the advent of the car-sized rover and its refined toolkit designed to search for signs that life once existed there. A second image showing the shadow of the rover on Mars arrived within seconds.
When the landing was announced after a tense, seven-minute process known as entry, descent and landing, the room filled with ecstasy as the mission team cheered, exchanged hugs and chief scientists handed out Mars chocolate bars.
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