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Absolute joy prevailed in the NASA control room this afternoon as the Mars Rover known as Curiosity landed exactly according to plan. Curiosity has a two-year mission ahead. Report by Geraldine Cooper. Minutes after the landing signal reached Earth, Curiosity beamed back the first black-and-white pictures from inside the crater showing its wheel and its shadow, cast by the afternoon sun. “We landed in a nice flat spot. Beautiful, really beautiful,” said engineer Adam Steltzner, who led the team that devised the landing routine. It was NASA’s seventh landing on Earth’s neighbour; many attempts by the U.S. and other countries to zip past, circle or set down on Mars have gone awry. Click picture.
