NASA's Curiosity Rover: Here's the New Hi-Res Video of the Mars Landing
It's been 21 days since NASA's Curiosity rover successfully landed on Mars and rekindled a global interest in space exploration. The landing was renamed yesterday in honor of Ray Bradbury, and American science fiction and horror author who penned Fahrenheit 451. 
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The Bradbury landing was watched by millions online on the NASA website and was replayed for days on international television channels, but scientists just released the Hi-Res video of the Martian landing so we can relive the last two-and-a-half minutes before Curiosity's landing in Gale Crater.
Check out the video after the jump ...
From Nasa:
"This movie from NASA's Curiosity rover shows most of the high-resolution frames acquired by the Mars Descent Imager between the jettison of the heat shield and touchdown. The video, obtained on Aug. 5 PDT (Aug. 6 EDT), covers the last two-and-a-half minutes before touchdown in Gale Crater.This is a full-resolution version of the NASA Curiosity rover descent to Mars, taken by the MARDI descent imager. As of August 20, all but a dozen 1600x1200 frames have been uploaded from the rover, and those missing were interpolated using thumbnail data. The result was applied a heavy noise reduction, color balance, and sharpening for best visibility.
The video plays at 15fps, or 3x realtime. The heat shield impacts in the lower left frame at 0:21, and is shown enlarged at the end of the video."
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