Sunday, August 12, 2012

Mission Mars: 7 Minutes of Terror, and a decade of Curiosity!

August 5, 2012. This date will be forever etched in the history of mankind for successfully commissioning NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover - a never before feat of space engineering. Even if you're not a regular space explorer, the marvel of sending the heaviest (so far) unmanned spacecraft to one of humankind's "favorite" planets, is no small feat.

You can find a plethora of stuff about this on the various news and technology forums and channels. We thought, as followers of great technology, it's only fair to take a bow to this marvel of space technology.

If you want a quick re-cap of the big, landing event, check this news video, but if you'd like to experience the fantastically animated vision of what Rover's going to be doing while it's out there, you got to watch this: