Passing over the landing site early Monday, the space agency's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured a dramatic image of Curiosity plunging toward the surface, dangling from its fully deployed, 51-foot-wide parachute.
It gives us basic capabilities for operating the rover on the surface, but we have planned all along to switch over after landing to a version of flight software that is really optimized for surface operations.
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Globs of thick, gooey petroleum have washed ashore along the south Louisiana coast over the past week, landing on beaches and washing into marsh reeds.
Fears of a sharp slowdown, or hard landing, due to over-tightening by monetary officials appear to have been mollified by the reports.
The visitors kept pressing, with Gary Roberts racing clear and lifting the ball over Grant only to see it landing on the roof of the net.
With a grassy hollow guarding the left front edge and sand at the right front edge, to get close you must wriggle in between the traps or fly over and pray for a soft landing.
Over 40 years after the original moon landing Omega is still selling these watches in high volumes.
He under-rotated the flip, driving the front end of the snowmobile into the landing and sending him flying over the handlebars and into the snow head-first.
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Quick ball off the top of a line-out gave them the chance to cut loose, and a neat inside pass from Larkham gave Gerrard the chance to scythe over by the posts, with Mortlock landing the easy conversion.
Sinfield extended the lead by landing the conversion the ball going over via the left upright.
The front skis of the machine clipped the landing hill and Moore shot forward over the handlebars.
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But then the combined effects of the procyclical accounting and regulatory rules took over and turned the hoped-for soft landing into a very turbulent ride.
Moreover, dropping from 10% to 9% to 8% over a three year period is the softest hard landing ever.
Moore died from injuries sustained when a failed backflip sent him headlong into a hard landing ramp, his snowmobile crashing down over him moments later.
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But Ulster refused to lie down and Bowe dived over for his second try of the game, Wallace landing his third conversion.
When Laermer learns that a company has not been landing enough press, he'll send over a big box filled with the few articles the company has managed to grab, as well as a bunch of plastic spider webs.
The data confirms that the worst is probably over for the economy and that China has avoided a hard landing.
It hopes to avoid landing the taxpayer with the bill, but questions over CCS funding in Europe are as yet unresolved by the European Commission and the European Parliament.
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And when he caught Kristjansen with a lightning flurry of shots, the Dane went over and Khan moved in to finish off the job, landing some blows while his opponent's knees were sagging.
After landing in L.A., the plane pulled over to the side of the tarmac and stopped.
He could not make out the individual footfalls, the great velvet paws landing one in front of the other, only the over-all sound of it, a soft, travelling thump.
Rice left Pitt to coach at Robert Morris before landing at Rutgers, where his record was 44-51 over three seasons.
Known as the Codex Climaci Rescriptus, the piece was written over the span of three centuries and stowed in a sacred monastery until landing in the hands of a pair of British twins by way of local Egyptian dealers.
"We counted four planes landing, and there was one circling in that smoky area right over the crash site, " Bill Edwards said.
But the aircraft encountered atrocious weather conditions over Greenland and, with fuel running low, the crews attempted a difficult landing on to a glacier.
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The region had been hit by two inches of snow over Christmas but the bad weather is not thought to have been behind the emergency landing.
Though my sources all expect a soft landing of the Chinese economy and a well-managed correction of the over-heated housing market in the tier 1 cities.
The third is the flight path model (blue) that builds an equity position over time, holds that position for several years, and gradually decreases a fixed landing position.
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Anything below 7 percent in China over back-to-back quarters is considered by most economists to be a hard landing.
This will result in a far softer landing for the U.S. than Europe as tens of millions retire over the next several decades.
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