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== Media == === Videos === {{multiple image | align = center | direction = horizontal | image1 = MSL Launches to the Red Planet.ogg | width1 = 200 | alt1 = | caption1 = ''MSL'' launches from [[Cape Canaveral]]. | image2 = Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror.ogv | width2 = 200 | alt2 = | caption2 = ''MSL's'' ''Seven Minutes of Terror'', a NASA video describing the landing | image3 = Curiosity's descent in high-definition.ogv | width3 = 200 | alt3 = | caption3 = ''MSL's'' descent to the surface of [[Gale (crater)|Gale Crater]] | image4 = Curiosity heat-shield landing on Mars - MRO.ogv | width4 = 200 | alt4 = | caption4 = ''MSL's'' heat shield hitting Martian ground and raising a cloud of dust }} === Images === {{Gallery | align = center | title = | width = 180 | height = 140 |Image:Mars Science Laboratory landing ellipse reduced.jpg|''Curiosity's'' landing site is on [[Aeolis Palus]] near [[Aeolis Mons|Mount Sharp]] in [[Gale Crater]] β north is down. |Image:NASA-MSL-Curiosity -Heat-shield.674789main pia16021-full full.jpg|Ejected Heat Shield as the rover descended to the Martian surface (August 6, 2012 05:17 UTC)|Image:HiRISE image of MSL during EDL (refined).png|''Curiosity'' descending under its parachute, as viewed by [[HiRISE]] ([[Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter|MRO]]) (August 6, 2012)|Image:PIA15696-HiRISE-MSL-Sol11 2 -br2.jpg|''MSL's'' [[Space debris|debris field]] on August 17, 2012 (3-D versions: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130512005245/http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/images/Rover3D-pia16208-br2.jpg rover] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20130511233231/http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/images/Parachute3D-pia16209-br2.jpg parachute])|Image:Curiosity Rover (Exaggerated Color) - HiRISE - 20120814.jpg|''Curiosity's'' landing site ([[Bradbury Landing]]) viewed by [[HiRISE]] ([[Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter|MRO]]) (August 14, 2012)|Image:First picture sent by the Mars Curiosity rover.jpg|''Curiosity's'' first image after landing β The rover's wheel can be seen (August 6, 2012).|Image:First colored image from Curiosity.jpg|''Curiosity's'' first color image of the Martian landscape (August 6, 2012)|Image:PIA16094-Mars Curiosity Rover-First Drive Tracks.jpg|''Curiosity's'' first test drive ([[Bradbury Landing]]) (August 22, 2012)<ref name="NASA-20120822" /> }} {{wide image|PIA16072-MarsCuriosityRover-20120809.jpg|800px|align-cap=center|[[Curiosity (rover)|''Curiosity'' rover]] β near [[Bradbury Landing]] (August 9, 2012)}} {{wide image|PIA16768-MarsCuriosityRover-AeolisMons-20120920.jpg|800px|align-cap=center|''[[Curiosity (rover)|Curiosity]]''{{'s}} view of [[Mount Sharp]] (September 20, 2012; [[Color balance|white balanced]]) ([http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA16769.jpg raw color])}} {{wide image|PIA16453-MarsCuriosityRover-RocknestPanorama-20121126.jpg|800px|align-cap=center|''[[Curiosity (rover)|Curiosity]]''{{'s}} view from the "[[Rocknest (Mars)|Rocknest]]" looking eastward toward "Point Lake" (center) on the way to "[[Glenelg, Mars|Glenelg Intrigue]]" (November 26, 2012; [[Color balance|white balanced]]) ([[:File:PIA16453-MarsCuriosityRover-RocknestPanorama-Raw-20121126.jpg|raw color]])}} {{wide image|PIA19912-MarsCuriosityRover-MountSharp-20151002.jpg|800px|align-cap=center|''[[Curiosity (rover)|Curiosity]]''{{'s}} view of Mount Sharp (September 9, 2015)}} {{wide image|Martian-Sunset-O-de-Goursac-Curiosity-2013.jpg|800px|align-cap=center|''[[Curiosity (rover)|Curiosity]]''{{'s}} view of [[Extraterrestrial skies#Mars|Mars sky]] at [[Sunset#Planets|sunset]] (February 2013; Sun simulated by artist)}} {{Clear}}
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