NASA's latest Mars rover, Curiosity, recently made a successful landing and sent back some of it's first images:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-237
NASA also allowed members of the public to participate and put their name on board Curiosity, which I did. Just over 1 million people worldwide also took part:
http://marsparticipate.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/participate/sendyourname/worldmap/
The landing itself was a complex process which can be seen in this video:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/videos/index.cfm?v=49
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