Happy Anniversary, Mars Curiosity Rover! Watch Live as NASA Celebrates

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It’s the one-year anniversary of the Curiosity Rover landing on the surface of Mars. That’s one Earth year, by the way. Watch the JPL present a special program to celebrate, and ask questions via Twitter with the hashtag #AskNASA. There’s programming all day, and you can watch it live right here!

One year ago I stayed up late to watch NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineers go completely bananas when they successfully landed the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars, and rightfully so. It was a huge accomplishment for the space program.

(via NASA)

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