At 10:32 p.m. PST on Sunday night, NASA's robotic space rover, "Curiosity," touched down on the surface of the Red Planet -- in the "Gale Crater" for those keeping track. The landing was a landmark event -- the culmination of eight months of space travel (Curiosity launched on November 26, 2011) and some $2.5 billion. While the mere feat of surviving a trip through space (35 million+ miles) and a seven-minute atmospheric entry (which was totally automated, by the way, and required the craft to decelerate from 13,000 MPH).
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