14 years ago on August 5: A nail-biter of a Mars landingOn August 5, 2012, NASA achieved one of the most challenging feats in planetary exploration: landing the Curiosity rover safely on Mars. Those seven minutes became known as the “seven minutes of terror” — a dramatic name for a sequence in which years of engineering had to work perfectly on another planet. Mars Curiosity rover is still going strongSince 2012, Curiosity has been crawling across Mars’ surface and exploring Gale crater. Read more: Mars rover Curiosity heads for intriguing ‘spiderwebs’Read more: Martian rock crushed by Curiosity hides a surprise! Read more: Curiosity rover on Mars snags highest-resolution panorama yetRead more: Mars rover measures key life ingredient