What It Is Like to Land On Mars
You saw the time-lapse version of the Curiosity rover's descent.
Now watch the landing images seamlessly stitched together, side-by-side with a computer simulation.
This video steps viewers through a portion of the choreography needed to land NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars.
It starts with a computer simulation from NASA's Eyes on the Solar System program and uses actual images from Curiosity's
Mars Descent Imager. It ends with a high-resolution color image from Curiosity's Mast Camera.
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