'Curiosity' powers through risky landing; new images from Mars
Curiosity Mars rover
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
This is one of the first images taken by NASA's Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars the evening of Aug. 5 PDT (morning of Aug. 6 EDT). It was taken through a "fisheye" wide-angle lens on one of the rover's rear Hazard-Avoidance cameras at one-quarter of full resolution. The camera is the right eye of a stereo pair located at the back left, or port, side of the rover.
