NASA cheers Mars landing, welcomes new photos

Monday, August 6, 2012 | 6:47 p.m. CDT

PASADENA, Calif. — NASA celebrated the precision landing of a rover on Mars and marveled over the mission's first photographs Monday — grainy, black-and-white images of Martian gravel, a mountain at sunset and, most exciting of all, the spacecraft's white-knuckle plunge through the red planet's atmosphere.

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