" is asleep right now getting ready for tomorrow," said Michael Watkins, a mission systems manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "But we got a call through the orbiter with the status of what happened with that day's activities. Curiosity is healthy and still in great shape."

NASA released photos taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter showing what scientists jokingly called the "crime scene." It shows the rover surrounded by the landing sites of several of its components, such as its heat shield, parachute and sky crane.

Curiosity, which in the Gale Crater on Mars early Monday morning ET, completed its first full Martian day of what scientists hope will be a . The robotic rover, which is the size of an SUV, is tasked with discovering if Mars has, or has ever had, the materials needed to support life, even in microbial form.

NASA scientists also hope Curiosity will be able to give them enough information to decide whether the Red Planet can one day.

But for now, engineers are working to get ready to begin moving across the surface of Mars, scooping up soil samples, blasting rocks with its laser and analyzing the dust. It will take a few weeks to make sure the rover's systems are working properly and to unload its antennas and mast.