Nasa will be monitoring the drama from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.
It was overhauled last summer, when its original, water-jet propulsion engines were replaced with two inboard propeller engines.
For more live updates, including photos and footage from Mars, visit the Jet Propulsion Lab at CalTech.
The mission control in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory burst into cheers as the rover touched down Monday morning.
"No Earth impact is possible, " said asteroid expert Donald Yeomans at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
Scientists monitoring the landing at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, including the President's Science Advisor, John Holdren, were elated.
"It's a big deal, " said Charles Lawrence, Planck project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in a news briefing.
In April last year, in a clean room at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, I watched white-suited engineers gingerly assembling Curiosity.
Guy Raz talks to NPR's Joe Palca at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena about what scientists say they are seeing.
The system is tiny but has a grand name - Warp Drive (Water Alcohol Resisto-jet Propulsion De-orbit Re-entry Velocity Experiment).
The exhibition will also feature a unique watch made for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which indicates the time on Mars.
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Despite the uncertainties, Monday was a day to savor for the hundreds of mission engineers and scientists at Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Two corollaries to the NASA Homepage are also worth mentioning: sites for the NASA Shuttle Mission and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
But keen viewers everywhere used several live streams of the event on the internet, including a feed from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Nasa.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, it will be possible to measure stellar positions to within 20 millionths of an arcsecond by 2005.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory was swarming with media this past week as scientists and journalists prepared for signs of the rover's landing.
"The rovers are both in good shape, " said Jim Erickson, the rover project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
The half-hour broadcast from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif.
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The Zambezi runs on jet propulsion to avoid damaging the riverbed.
Steady electronic "heartbeat" tones relayed from Curiosity across space to Earth indicated a successful landing to the control room at Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
"No Earth impact is possible, " according to Don Yeomans, manager of the Near-Earth Object Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's confirmed list of "VIP" guests included celebrities Alex Trebek, Chuck Lorre, Wil Wheaton, Nichelle Nichols, Bill Prady and June Lockhart.
The rocks, which were described in a media briefing at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, were likely laid down "several billion years ago".
Scientists and engineers at Jet Propulsion Laboratory had said very recently they are still going back to the database that Viking developed 30 years ago.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who helped to draw up plans for the Europa mission, says it is at least 15 years away.
As of April 19, 2013, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Planet Quest website reports 851 confirmed planets and 2781 candidates, totaling as many as 3, 632 exoplanets.
"We feel strongly that this is what came before the planets, " said Carol Raymond, Dawn's deputy principal investigator at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
"We've got the black holes cornered, " said Daniel Stern of Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), lead author of one of the three studies presented on Wednesday.
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We have a bevy of people here in Utah and the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena and at Lockheed Martin in Denver they're flying the spacecraft.
" Ashwin Vasavada, a Curiosity project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told reporters that controllers "couldn't be happier with the success of the mission so far.
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