I watched it live from the time their livestream had 7800 viewers to the time it had over 200k.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html
is the mission page, space.com had a really good writeup as well.
http://www.space.com/16385-curiosity...aboratory.html
The original 7 minutes of terror video:
A great tweet: Gold medal for NASA in the 563 billion meters
Matthew Inman (TheOatmeal) found this image in their hidden stash:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-h.../s407/mars.jpg
This was a fairly apt tweet:
https://twitter.com/JobVranish/statu...07550173925377
Another one of the first pictures:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-D...0/BaDumTss.jpg