Curiosity Mars Landing: Los Angeles Celebrates [Video]

[Photo: www.nasa.gov]

It would have been easier to find a parking space on Mars than it was at Griffith Observatory on Sunday night. That was because well over 1000 people made the pilgrimage up the winding, tree-lined road to the star gazing center to share this historic event in a hot, cramped space, crushed against hundreds of people they did not know.

Those who had the foresight to arrive early got to watch the Mars rover, Curiosity, land from theater style seats in the Leonard Nimoy Event Horizon Amphitheater, Griffith Observatory’s  modern, climate controlled lecture hall. Scientists from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory narrated and provided background about the Mars program seated comfortably on the amphitheater’s stage.  

[Video after the jump]