Curiosity, as known to the robot vehicle of 2,500 million dollars that the U.S. Space Agency (NASA) sent to Mars, got through Monday at 05H31 GMT, capping a successful mission to Mars more sophisticated in history , according to NASA.
"Arrival confirmed," said a member of mission control at NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of NASA in Pasadena (California, U.S. West),
while the office burst into celebrations.
"We put wheels on Mars.
My God, "he added, after Curiosity successfully achieved its descent of
seven minutes, which seems to have developed as planned despite its
complexity.
Right after that pose Martian territory, amid laughter and applause
from the staff of the checkpoint, an official of the mission distributed
chocolate bars Mars brand to your computer.
After the relief came a second burst of joy when the robot sent his
first picture of startling clarity, which portrays his own shadow in
Marian soil.
It is anticipated that the mission of Curiosity last two years, and it
is expected that, among other things, identify possible traces of past
life on Mars.
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