We landed a rover on Mars. How cool is that?! Curiosity is it's name and it's game. We are going to find out some neat things about Mars now. I know there have been other rovers sent but if my memory serves me correct this is probably the largest they have sent and successfully landed.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I wish I could have watched the landing in real time. There are lots of neat pictures and articles out there but here is a couple I like. An article from CNN and NASA has a site that already has pictures taken by the rover. Any videos on the landing are probably pretty good to see too. Obviously it isn't an actually video of it landing because what would be out there filming it besides some aliens.
The rover takes 14 minutes to beam the information back to Earth. The minimum distance between Earth and Mars and 54.6 Kilometers. That's like 501 football fields. No jokes. (Football being American football.) That's crazy. Mind boggling.
Seriously. Go geek out about this. I'm totally picturing Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles Aliens greeting the rover.
I'm going to go post some pictures of my garden on DevianArt later and maybe post them in the next blog but right now I just have to revel in the way the world is super awesome and full of space exploring rovers.
Also, this is my favorite picture that has come out of this so far. It is the first image sent back from Curiosity and someone edited in Wall-E. So freaking cute!
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