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Watch This Stunning New High-Definition Video of The Mars Rover's Descent

Adrian Chen · 08/22/12 10:52AM

Here is an incredible new video of the Mars Curiosity Rover's descent, so clear it's like you're bearing down on Mars yourself. The video is comprised of hundreds of high-definition still images beamed back by the Mars Descent Imager (MARDI) and stitched together to form a video. It seems almost too good to be true, except you can check out the original raw images here.

No, This Isn't The First Picture From The Mars Curiosity Rover

Adrian Chen · 08/06/12 09:08AM

The NASA rover Curiosity landed on Mars early this morning. Now this picture of a sunset on Mars is going viral on Tumblr and Twitter and all the hot sharing apparatuses, along with the caption: "NASA just landed a rover on Mars, this is the very first picture. This JUST happened minutes ago."