Curiosity's Descent

The Curiosity Mars Descent Imager (MARDI) captured the rover's descent to the surface of the Red Planet. The instrument shot 4 fps video from heatshield separation to the ground.

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[stellabella841]

R.I.P. Neil Armstrong

[qed100]

You should alert Mr Plinkett that there are pizza rolls on Mars.

[PrivateMJCaboose]

2012 was quite a year. Oh how I wish Carl Sagan had still been with us....

[ParaglidingManiac]

Just use the HD high frames per second version, will you please!?

[Ian O'Neil]

Now since when was making the next Facebook more important than exploring the possibly profitable Mars? Whether you like it or not, humanity needs to conquer space if they are ever going to do something great.

[ToSexyForLove]

R.I.P Charles Chaplin

[Morten Christensen]

R.I.P Jimi Hendrix

[VyCanis Majoris]

not only that this 2bil was distributed over 10 years span period. That only 200mil per year! Compare to 2 Trillions (that $2 000 000 000 000) like you said on military. Perspective.

[lholugcvljv]

1,000,000 jobs with $2,500,000,000? no problem. Give me the money and I will hire 1 million people and pay them minimum wage for about 6 weeks to sit around and think about capitalism. Then I'll take out taxes.

[Geeios1]

The US Gov't OWES more than 45 trillion in non-constitutional (non-legal) medicare and Soch Security, so the 2 trillion in constitutional military spending is a drop in the bucket and LEGAL.