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See Where Our Curiosity Gets Us?

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I'm so excited I might burst. The first images from Curiosity's cameras rained down to Earth in the middle of last night, after a 14 minute journey from the red planet. Here they are, in all their glory. Larger, color images will be available next week. Let the imagination soar!!

Other neat tidbits from Curiosity:

Caleb Sharf's Life Unbounded has a great map of the various landing sites and how Curiosity's locale relates.


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And in case you missed the live feed of the Mars team as Curiosity landed and sent back the first images depicted here, Joanne Manaster posted a video of it over at PsiVid.