Curiosity touches down successfully – Tweets Curiosity

At 06:32 this morning, the Mars Science Lab completed the second stage in its journey to discover if the Red Planet ever supported life. KitGuru breathes a sigh of relief.

In a novel twist to space exploration, NASA scientists have programmed Curiosity to behave exactly like a human on holiday. Every significant (and, sometimes, not so significant) experience gets automatically tweeted to the world in ‘natural language' terms.

Here's a unique tourist's point of view on the historic Mars landing that took place earlier this morning:-

Here is one of Curiosity's first holiday snaps of what promises to be nearly 2 years and 500km of site-seeing.

KitGuru says: We love the Tweeting-twist of NASA devices engaging with a human audience back on Earth. What a great way to engage the public. Given that more missions to Mars have failed (24) than succeeded (15), Curiosity's successful landing will give NASA fresh hope for future flights.

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