There was another press conference at 4pm PDT this afternoon where the MSL team showed off some more awesome images!
This one is from the front HAZCAM, and by good fortune it looks like Curiosity is pointing towards Mt. Sharp, the mountain at the centre of Gale crater that it’s going to be climbing throughout the mission! The dark line in the foreground is actually a field of sand dunes between the rover and the mountain!
Another VERY cool thing they released was a low resolution video showing the descent of Curiosity, taken from the MARDI camera (MARs Dscent Imager) – they took 220 frames and stitched them together to make the video. They’ll be sending back higher resolution images over the next few weeks, so this is going to look even more spectacular soon. But meanwhile, feast your eyes on this:
Again, Emily Lakdawalla has more details so I’ll point you to her article for those rather than repeat it all here :).