As of Aug. 5, 2013, the Curiosity Mars rover has spent an whole year on the Red planet.

She's supposed to be there for two years total, investigating if ancient Mars was once habitable — a feat she actually already accomplished a few months ago.

As she touched down on Mars Aug. 5, 2012, after seven unmanned minutes spent in terror, waiting for the culmination of decades of work, a scream of excitement shook the Curiosity rover's control room.

"Touchdown confirmed, we are safe on Mars," engineer Allen Chen said over the radio, eliciting tears of joy and congratulatory hugs between all the blue-shirted Jet Propulsion Laboratory staff.

Curiosity is on Mars to investigate several things, including studying the climate and geology, searching for signs of life and water, and determining if the planet could ever be made habitable for humans. She was made to last for a two-year mission — and is already half way though it.

One of the most nail-biting events was the Rover's entry, descent and landing on the Red Planet — which luckily went off perfectly. See the video below to relive it or experience it for the first time.

Relive The Excitement And Exhilaration Of Curiosity's Landing With This Video

This image taken during the descent by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the rover while she was falling to the surface. You can see the parachute slowing her descent in this stunning image.

The rover's own cameras caught the landing from her point of view. The video starts with the heat shield (which protected Curiosity while she was falling through the atmosphere) detaching, and ends with the sky crane blowing up dust and the rover touching down on Mars.