The photo was captured by the satellite orbiting Mars – the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter – and shows Curiosity parachuting to the Martian surface after a 352 million-mile journey and harrowing plunge through the planet’s atmosphere dubbed “7 Minutes of Terror.”

Now that the image has leaked out, we can post it too… MRO captures #MSL twitter.com/MSL_101/status…

— MSL Curiosity (@MSL_101) August 6, 2012

Buzzfeed took the photo above, enlarged and refined it, and made a spectacular image more incredible.

Outer space is awesome.

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