The most high-tech Mars rover built landed on the red planet yesterday after an epic eight-month 352 million mile journey.
Nasa said it received a signal from the Curiosity rover after a plunge through the Martian atmosphere described as ‘seven minutes of terror’.

The rover is the size of a small car, so engineers had to come up with a new way to set it down. For the first time cables were used to lower the rover inside of a giant crater. At $2.5 billion, it is the most ambitious and priciest Mars mission yet.