One more space frontier has been breached with NASA’s Mars rover called Curiosity making a touchdown on the Red Planet yesterday at 11.02 am India time. Reports say cheers rang out at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in California US with the exclamation “Oh my God” summing up the feelings of the mission members. Now the robotic spacecraft Curiosity will begin a two-year search to find out if Mars once had conditions suitable for life.

Pathbreaking: Nehru Planetarium director Arvind Paranjpye against a picture of Mars at the Planetarium in the city. Pic/Sunil Tiwari