Amazing Curiosity footage gives you a rover’s eye view of its landing on Mars

Have you ever wondered what you would see as you reach down on Mars ? This timelapse video stitches together photos of the Curiosity scouter ’s descent , and let you watch as the Martian surface come nigher and closer until you ’re completely smother by alien dust .

Spaceflight 101pulled together high - resolution effigy from the Mars Descent Imager ( MARDI ) , capturing the heat shield separation and powered descent . It ’s not quite a full inning rate video , but it ’s still a remarkably prospect of what the rover saw as it landed .

NASA has also released images of the rover ’s heat shield hurtle down to the aerofoil and throwing up dust on impact . The heat buckler is simply not as treat a lander as Curiosity itself .