Curiosity Mars landing 350 million miles

by Terrymiller: NASA

Curiosity covered roughly 350 million miles on its journey from Earth to Mars before finally arriving at the Red Planet. Its descent involved a heat shield and a supersonic parachute to decelerate the spacecraft, after which a sky crane carefully lowered the rover onto the Martian ground. Once it was safely on the surface, further details can be found at the link below.