Batesville Herald Tribune, Batesville, Indiana

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August 6, 2012

Video: NASA lands car-sized rover on Mars; engineers celebrate

NASA's most advanced Mars rover Curiosity landed on the Red Planet late Sunday, after "seven minutes of terror" at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory where scientists monitored the craft’s dangerous descent through the planet’s atmosphere. After the one-ton rover touched down at 10:32 p.m. PT, the control room erupted in cheers. The landing ends a 36-week flight and begins a two-year investigation into whether Mars’ environment can support life.

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