(CNN) - NASA's rover Curiosity successfully carried out a highly challenging landing on Mars early Monday, transmitting images back to Earth after traveling hundreds of millions of miles through space in order to explore the Red Planet.
The $2.6 billion Curiosity made its dramatic arrival on Martian terrain in a spectacle popularly known as the "seven minutes of terror."
CNN's John Zarrella joins Early Start live from NASA's jet propulsion lab in Pasadena, California this morning to discuss the rover's mission and to explain what's next for Curiosity.