UA Mars camera helped find landing spot, snaps photo of rover

Tuesday, August 7, 2012 - 05:30 in Astronomy & Space

(Phys.org) -- In a carefully choreographed maneuver high in the sky above Mars, two man-made spacecraft zipped past each other as NASA scientists and engineers stared at screens inside Mission Control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, anxiously enduring the "7 minutes of terror" - the time it would take the Curiosity rover to plunge into Mars' atmosphere and touch down on the bottom of Gale Crater near the Martian equator.

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