Below we have (click any to enlarge it):
- upper left: the heat shield, which dropped away from the sky crane assembly once the parachute was deployed
- upper right: the backshell and attached parachute
- lower left: the splat made by the sky crane assembly after it dropped off Curiosity and flew out of the way
- lower right: Curiosity itself, sitting alone on the bottom of Gale Crater, with a dark area around it where the sky crane's rockets cleared off the light colored dust
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