This short compilation video is a great overview of all the action on landing night for the Curiosity rover: Suspense, intrigue and definitely a happy ending. Only this “made for movie theater”-like trailer really happened.
UPDATE: We’ve gotten comments and questions that some people can’t see the video above, so we’ve added the You Tube version, below.
It has been a very long time since I became emotional by watching a science clip.
woah such an amazing compilation, looking forward to what things msl will discover 😛
Salute to those guys out there!!
I don’t see anything. Just the text, no video box.
Ah! My noscript blocked it.
And Curiosity STICKS THE LANDING!
It looks like a 10.00 to me….
What a great video to watch. I hope we will learn a lot from mars
Well done to jpl and NASA. An emotional event worthy of a gold medal
I wouldn’t call it a happy ending…more like a happy begining. Congrats and a job well done to NASA!
Worth the cost of a movie ticket. Earth will never be the same; You can’t say that about mars.
Sociologists could learn much from this video clip, if only every workplace environment had such an enthralling atmosphere as the staff at JPL……….
It’s so hard to believe this is not science fiction, this is not some speculative video on robotics – it’s our own Curiosity finding her way down to Gale Crater on the surface of Mars. Well done NASA/JPL!