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By Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA
August 6, 2012
![[article image]](https://cacm.acm.org/system/assets/0000/8765/8612.jpl.nasa.msl_shadow_mars.large.jpg?1476779412&1344264143 "First image by Curiosity rover")
NASA's most advanced Mars rover Curiosity has landed on the Red Planet. The one-ton rover, hanging by ropes from a rocket backpack, touched down onto Mars Sunday to end a 36-week flight and begin a two-year investigation.
From Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA
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