This five-minute video produced by NASA dramatizes the landing of the Curiosity Rover on August 6, 2012. The “seven minutes of terror” is the time between the moment the Rover entered the atmosphere of Mars and the moment it touched down on the surface.

The video chronicles one of the most complex engineering victories in history, in which a multimillion dollar explorer rocketed toward the surface of a previously unvisited, distant planet at one thousand miles per hour, heating to a temperature of 1,600 degrees celsius, opening a parachute, dropping a heat shield, dropping the parachute, kicking on rockets, dodging the parachute, and landing next to a six-kilometer high mountain. The video, which has been viewed more than two million times, brings the stress and triumph of the mission to life.