The biggest lab on wheels landed on Mars

Rover Curiosity, the biggest laboratory on wheels, successfully landed on the Red Planet's deepest crater called Gale and you can follow it on Twitter and Facebook as well.

Using retrorockets and hanging from ropes, the Rover Curiosity landed on Mars today at 07:32:54 am GMT+2 and also sent first photographs and tweets back to the Earth. Atlas rocket launch and its 36-week journey on the has come to the end, only to begin the two-year investigation of Mars surface.

The Curiosity rover is the most sophisticated and advanced vehicle ever to be sent from the Earth. The one tone, car sized and 2.5 billion worth rover is being propelled by an electric generator that is powered by plutonium, which guarantees a "life span" of 14 years. Rover plans to cover the distance of 200 meters per day and its territory will be the crater Gale, which is also the biggest crater on Mars. The main objective is the search of evidence of possible life from the past.

The rover will be on search for specific elements which could than answer the ever so boggling question were there ever conditions suitable for life on Mars.

The hardest part of the mission was the landing, which was conducted in several phases. Rover landed with the help of parachutes and retrorockets which soften the initial landing speed then a floating crane was used to actually drop the Curiosity rover to Mars surface.

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