Ground Control to Major Tom News Event! NASA’s extremely high-tech rover – the most advanced rover of its kind – has just landed on Mars! This is big news, guys! Exclamations! You can live stream the celebrations right now; because if there’s one thing NASA knows how to do it’s land expensive shit on planets party.
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The journey took over eight months and spanned 566.46 million kilometres, with the final seven minutes considered the most difficult as the rover hit the surface at 20,920km/h. Curiosity, the name of the rover, weighs nearly a ton and is the size of a small car, and landed near the Mars equator just minutes ago. The Wall-E-esque contraption will begin scanning for life-supporting essentials, including a veritable shopping list of Walter White goodness, including carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous, sulfur and oxygen.
Curiosity has already started taking its first Instagram snapshots, like this one:
You can follow it on Twitter @MarsCuriousity for excellent updates like “I’m safely on the surface of Mars. GALE CRATER I AM IN YOU!!!”
