NASA control room during touchdown of Curiosity

Touchdown at 2:30 ish

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[Samantha C]

Good job NASA

[enhancdreality]

I hope you are joking...These are the type of people that propel society forward. Their life makes all of our lives better. This is a HUGE achievement...It would be a shame if you couldn't appreciate that

[zainab amharech]

me tooooo

[Ben Allen]

I'm talking by sheer difficulty of the achievement, in which case this is definitely number one. Building the pyramids wasn't as hard as this.

[Ben Allen]

The whole point is that we make it cheaper to get it there and back, and that starts with this.

[Leslie Nevarez]

3:22, Mars does have an atmosphere containing oxygen.

[Riley O'Neill]

It was a significant achievement of Nasa. But not of human history. Not even in the top 50. Unless the rover detects life of Martian origin, then it would be definitely up there.

[Riley O'Neill]

The cost of bringing back these materials to earth is presently more than their market value. An materials brought from Mars to Earth would be so precious that their only value would be as a scientific specimen not any sort of marketplace commodity.

[kevin lasley]

Did the ball drop

[Ben Allen]

and, maybe, access to the hundred of trillions of dollars worth of minerals like gold, silver, platinum, uranium, aluminum etc. that are probably in the crust of mars. Imagine, all the resources available come from one planet, we could double that amount by colonizing mars. And if the US can get there first, we wont be in debt for hundreds of years.

[TheYoungAstronomer]

I think he is...