Well, that was fast! The MARDI - MARs Descent Imager - was designed to take images as the Curiosity rover dropped down to the surface of Mars. Those thumbnail images have been put together into a stop-motion video that's just jaw-droppingly cool:
VIDEO of Curiosity's descent... from the rover cam itself!
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