We watched the live feed from nasa.gov. The craft lander separated, entered the atmosphere, parachute deployed, radar locked, fired thrusters, lander separated, lowered from sky crane, and landed softly on the surface from 13,000 mph minutes before. The controllers were ecstatic and the lander returned some images. The announcer said the NASA websites crashed from the traffic but we had a live feed the entire time (although the video was a bit choppy at moments).
Here is a link to the landing video.
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| Screen capture at moment landing announced. |
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| First thumbnail image returned (from screen capture of video) moments later. The horizon is near the top and a wheel is visible in the lower right. |
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