Prasun Desai, an Indian-American engineer, who put four years of work to get the solar-powered lander to the red planet, said "it felt like a really fast roller coaster".
"Everything worked out great," the engineer added.
The most difficult part, the scientists said, was to land the spacecraft since it was for the first time that the probe touched the ground on its three legs without using a cushion after it entered the Martian atmosphere at over 12,000 miles per hour.
Image: Members of the Mars Exploration Programme hug each other after the spacecraft landed on the Martian terrain.
Photograph: Lawrence K Ho-Pool/Getty Images
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