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        "description": "<p>August 6, 2012\u2014Early Monday NASA scientists erupted with cheers, tears, and fist pumps at the successful completion of one of the most complicated spacecraft landings ever attempted.</p><p>After carrying out its \"seven minutes of terror\" landing sequence with clockwork precision, the Curiosity rover landed wheels-down on the surface of Mars and within minutes sent back pictures of rocky Gale Crater.</p>", 
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        "title": "Mars Curiosity Rover Landing a Success\u2014NASA Jubilant", 
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                    "name": "Mars Rover Landing a Success\u2014What Happens Now?"
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        "credit": "2012 National Geographic; video, images, and animations courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech", 
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        "transcript": "<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Capping a 36-week voyage from Earth to Mars, the Curiosity spacecraft <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">landing</em> was one of the most complicated ever attempted.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">The NASA named \u201cSeven Minutes of Terror\u201d passed without disappointment.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">NAT SOUND</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">SOUNDBITE: Charles Elachi, Director, NASA Jet Propulson Laboratory</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI kept thinking about the Olympics. And our team, we didn\u2019t know going there if we would win, but they did everything right, and this team: they won the gold!\u201d</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">In one of the last complicated, computer programmed technical landing maneuvers, a \u201csky-crane\u201d lowered the rover onto Mars, wheels down.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">And later, Curiosity rewarded its creators with the first black and white images of what it sees\u2014one of those wheels in the foreground.  Before this image was captured, a dust cover over the camera lens was sprung open, and part of the spring that released it is seen at the bottom right, near the rover\u2019s wheel.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">Other cameras on the Rover will send back color images after the rover\u2019s mast, carrying high-resolution cameras, is deployed.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">NASA hopes Curiosity will spend two years roving the Mars surface investigating whether the region ever offered conditions favorable for life.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"> </em></p>", 
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