Top picks This week: we parked a science lab with a nuclear heart on a Martian crater, and I talked to friends on the other side of the world about it using my hand-held computer. It was amazing. Here’s a round-up of Mars Curiosity coverage, chosen to highlight different aspects of the cool main story.
Ross Andersen captured a collection of tweets, depicting Curiosity's landing as it happened. It’s beautiful, and still gives me chills.
Ian Sample and James Randerson live-blogged the whole thing – definitely the right way to report this story.
“No photo or it didn't happen? Well lookee here, I'm casting a shadow on the ground in Mars' Gale crater,” tweeted the Mars rover.
Here's mission control when Curiosity landed
This is an actual image of a robotic science lab parachuting onto Mars. How did we get it?
Why Curiosity's sky crane *isn't* the future for Mars ...
