The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance orbiter captured this picture of the Curiosity rover still connected to its parachute as it descended towards its landing site at Gale Crater on Mars.
The image was taken while MRO was 211 miles (340 kilometers) away from the parachuting rover. Curiosity and its rocket-propelled backpack had yet to be deployed. At the time, Curiosity was about two miles above the Martian surface.
Curiosit landed at 10:32 p.m. Aug. 5, PDT, (1:32 on Aug. 6, EDT) near the foot of a mountain three miles tall inside Gale Crater, 96 miles in diameter
Credit: NASA
Credit: NASA
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