PASADEAN, Calif., Dec. 5 (UPI) -- NASA says its Mars orbiting spacecraft has captured images of impact sites created by parts of the spacecraft that delivered the Curiosity rover to the planet.
When the NASA Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft entered the martian atmosphere Aug. 5 in the famous "7 minutes of terror," the final stage of the flight that put Curiosity on the Red Planet's surface, it shed its cruise stage used during the flight from Earth and also released two 165-pound blocks of tungsten to improve aerodynamic lift.