NASA MARS Rover Curiosity: Update Video

Although the $2.5 billion Curiosity has been on the Red Planet for just a few days, it already has a lot to be proud of. Firstly, it exectued a daring and unprecedented landing pretty much flawlessly. In the last phase of Curiosity's entry, descent and landing (EDL) sequence, a rocket-powered sky crane lowered the six-wheeled robot to the floor of Mars' Gale Crater on cables, then flew off and crash-landed intentionally about 2,000 feet (600 meters) away. Such a maneuver had never been tried before on another planet.