It's not very big, and it might not look like much, but this photo, taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite, captures the Curiosity as it's parachuting to the surface . I've never seen anything like this before.
I did what I could to enhance this one — the original is pretty tiny. But man, still.
Here's an explanation of what exactly we're looking at here:
The photo was taken between the parachute deployment phase and the backshell separation stage, as far as I can tell.