EPA 2012-08-07 09:37:27 Mars Curiosity
A handout photograph released by NASA on 07 August 2012 showing a montage of images NASA's Curiosity rover failinl to the surface of Mars, in the morning hours of 06 August 2012, as NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captured an image of the rover gliding on its parachute. The image was taken with the orbiter's High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera. On 07 August 2012, the MRO team located another object in this image -- not present in prior images of the same region -- which is the right size to be the rover's heat shield. The heat shield was ejected from the rover and its back shell before this image was taken. The team thinks the heat shield is still in free flight, because, if it were to have already hit the surface, it would have kicked up a dust cloud. The HiRISE image of NASA's Phoenix lander on its parachute also captured the heat shield in free fall. EPA/NASA/JPL-Caltech / Univ. of Arizona / HANDOUT
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