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Not one cell phone, video camera in sight. that s a that s harder to believe than anything, nobody had a cell phone. we had plenty of vantage points. thank you very much. this happened on the very same day an asteroid buzzed by earth. what could be the closerrest to ever fly by our planet. it happened in the past hour, nasa said the meteorite in russia had nothing to do with the asteroid, about the size of half a football field. joining me, astronomer david dundee. the question is, as i have just answered, there was nothing to do with the two of them one is more common than the other. meteorites in the sky of russia coming down. how rare is that? well, meteorite impacts ....
landings in history. but for now, all eyes on this. the very first video of the curiosity landing, released today. the grainy video was shot onboard moments before touching down. john zarrella and chad myers join me now for more. so, john, let s start with you. you have been following the story very closely and are live at nasa s jetropulsion laboratory in california. tell us about this new veo and what exactly are we seeing? reporter: well, in fact, zoraida, what we re seeing in this video are images taking from the descent camera, made by space industries down in san diego. and the video shows the curiosity rover as it is descending down through the atmosphere to the touchdown on mars. it was 297 images all put together into one continuous short video. and then there was the haz cam image. they finally did get a higher resolution picture which shows mt. sharp in the distance. and that mt. sharp is, of course, critical what they are hoping to do is get over to mt. sh ....