This 2.5 billion dollar mission was a success and mission control just expressed everything I was feeling as it touched down. Wow. 10:14 PM PDT was the official touchdown time of the rover. This was the first picture sent back down to Pacedena, CA looked a bit like this.
Terrible, I know. But that is low-res. A wheel is pictured in there. A high-res pic came a little bit later, but it'll be all over the internet. There was also a picture taken on the front end of the rover as well. Here it is.
You can see the shadow of the rover there.
Curiosity is safe, and she is doing great. There was a bit of dust but nothing major. Press conferences are starting soon.
I cannot explain the emotion. We just landed the biggest rover on the face of the planet (did you see what I did there) We are going to look for the unknown, finally. This is the mission we have been waiting for.
Six years are the making, of something this incredible. The universe was one-upped by the human spirit today, and we will continue to keep growing. We dared mighty things, and we ate our peanuts, and we landed on another planet. And I'll be up doing this when we land a human on mars.
Like the guy in mission control said, HOLY SHIT!
Let our curiosity take us places we never dreamed we'd be.
-Rachael The Ginger
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