On Sunday night, millions of miles away, a nail-biter of a landing will be executed—or not—on Mars. The Mars rover, Curiosity, which has been traveling to the distant planet for the past eight-and-a-half months, will land on the red planet by remote control.



To stick the landing, the car-size rover must successfully slow down from 13,000 mph to zero in seven minutes, or "Seven Minutes of Terror," as the wildly popular video from NASA explains—which you can watch below...

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Tune in to the Yahoo! live-stream on Sunday, August 5, at 10:31 p.m. PT or 1:31 a.m. ET.

I took this picture in the Mojave Desert, Calico Ghost Town to be exact. I messed around with red filters and created a picture that looks like Mars, thought I'd share it since I'm on the subject...

Why don't they concentrate on landing on the moon first?

IT HAS BEGUN PREPARE YOURSELF FOR WHEN MARS ATTACKS ............................................TRANSMISSION OUT

I KID MAN THIS WILL BE INTERESTING THOUGH NO DOUBT ....

The whole 7 minutes of terror video is pretty bad ass but the music makes it feel like a propaganda movie so people can take more interest in nasa.

Dope Mars picture Kabawl, pretty sure NASA could use someone of your ultra scientific Mars terrain picture analysis skill

"Curiosity killed the cat" is a proverb used to warn of the dangers of unnecessary investigation or experimentation.

That's right esevato, didn't think of that.

I thought rovers where a dog not a cat???? I'm confused.

Hold up I get it, rover the dog, killed the cat. Tight.

MarsCuriosity I'm safely on the surface of Mars. GALE CRATER I AM IN YOU!!! #MSL _FUNNY TWEET

Touchdown confirmed:WE'VE LANDED ON MARS!