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Gallery: Mars rover lands

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  1. Image shot off a video screen from Nasa TV shows members of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) team celebrating inside the Spaceflight Operations Facility for Nasa's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover at Jet Propulsion Laboratory after receiving the first few images ...
  2. One of the first images from the Curiosity rover is pictured of its wheel after it successfully landed on Mars.
  3. One of the first images from the Curiosity rover is pictured of its wheel after it successfully landed on Mars.
  4. Members of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) team celebrating inside the Spaceflight Operations Facility for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover at Jet Propulsion Laboratory after receiving the first few images from the Curiosity rover.
  5. Members of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) team celebrating inside the Spaceflight Operations Facility for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover at Jet Propulsion Laboratory after receiving the first few images from the Curiosity rover.

Gallery: Mars rover lands

 

Nasa on Sunday successfully landed its $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory and Curiosity rover on the surface of the Red Planet, marking the most ambitious attempt to reach Mars in history.

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