NASA goes nuts over Mars landing

POSTED: 11:20 AM PDT Aug 09, 2012    UPDATED: 04:34 AM PDT Aug 28, 2012 

Emotions were sky high after NASA's rover Curiosity successfully landed on Mars on Aug. 6, 2012, and the world continues to watch in fascination as the rover beams back images of the Martian surface.

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The $2.6 billion Curiosity contains 17 cameras, a laser that can survey the composition of rocks from a distance and instruments that can analyze samples from soil or rocks.

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