LOS ANGELES – 'Curiosity' returns photos from surface of Mars.
NASA's rover 'Curiosity' has survived a harrowing journey to Mars and has lived to tweet about it, as its engineers celebrated back home.
Only minutes after touchdown, the rover's cheerful Twitter account began posting photos, saying, "No photo or it didn't happen? Well lookee here.
NASA officials say the Curiosity rover has made its first scoop of the surface of planet Mars and has detected a bright object on the ground.
Officials said in a news release Monday that they suspect the object might be a part of the six-wheeled rover, but they won't sample or scoop anymore until they figure out what it is.
Century Fox Reports: Curiosity travels 23 feet on Mars.
The Curiosity has already beamed back pictures of bedrock that suggest a fast-moving stream once flowed on the planet.
The rover landed Aug. 5 and is on a two-year, $2.5 billion mission to study whether microbial life could have existed on Mars in the past.
Today's Mars is a frozen desert, but previous geological studies suggest it was once warmer and wetter.
Edited By Cen Fox Post Team
