What's trending for August 7, 2012

During NASA's Curiosity rover's landing on Mars, the internet went wild over the rocket scientist in mission control with a mohawk. The scientist gained 20,000 twitter followers overnight and now has his own Tumblr page dedicated to him.

CNN's John Zarella was able to track "mohawk guy" Bobak Ferdoski down and found out that the 32-year-old changes his hairstyle for every mission and has a masters degree in aeronautical engineering from MIT.

Also trending this morning, the NFL will have a female referee for the first time in history while regular NFL officials are locked out by the league.

Shannon Eastin, who has spent time officiating high school and college games, will be part of the replacement crew officiating Thursday's Packers-Chargers game.

Finally, an adorable little girl named Camrynn is being called the cutest NFL fan ever after she told Arizona linebacker Sam Acho that she loved him when she got the chance to meet him at training camp.