‘Curiosity’ Lands on Mars after ‘Seven Minutes of Terror’

5
>>Follow Matzav On Whatsapp!<<

curisoity-mars1In a show of technological wizardry, the robotic explorer Curiosity blazed through the pink skies of Mars, steering itself to a gentle landing inside a giant crater for the most ambitious dig yet into the red planet’s past.

A chorus of cheers and applause echoed through the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Sunday night after the most high-tech interplanetary rover ever built sent a signal to Earth. It had survived a harrowing plunge through the thin Mars atmosphere.

“Touchdown confirmed,” said engineer Allen Chen. “We’re safe on Mars.”

Minutes later, Curiosity beamed back the first pictures from the surface showing its wheel and its shadow, cast by the afternoon sun-giving earthlings their first glimpse of a touchdown on another world.

It was NASA’s seventh landing on Earth’s neighbor; many other attempts by the U.S. and other countries to zip past, circle or set down on Mars have gone awry.

The arrival was an engineering tour de force, debuting never-before-tried acrobatics packed into “seven minutes of terror” as Curiosity sliced through the Martian atmosphere at 13,000 mph.

In a Hollywood-style finish, cables delicately lowered the rover to the ground at a snail-paced 2 mph.

Read more at MERCURY NEWS.

{Matzav.com Newscenter}


5 COMMENTS

  1. there is a source in chazal that there was life on mars as the science are trying to find now

    ????? ??“? ?? ????? ???? ???? ??? ???? ?` ???? ???? ?????? ?? ?? ??? ????? ?` (?????? ?`)

    ?? ?????? ???? ??? ?? ??????? ??? `????` ???? ????? ??????? ?????, ??? ????? ??? ???? `???? ??????` ???????? ??? ??? ??? ???? ????? ????? ???? ????? ?? ?? ?????? ??? ?? ??? ????? ?` ??????? ???? ??????? ??? ??? ?????? ??? ????? ??? ?? ????? ??? ?????“

    read more about it here: http://www.hidabroot.org/CommunityDetail.asp?FaqID=40682

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here