This is the first colour picture Spirit has taken on the surface of Mars. The full picture is 8 megabytes. [wow, there's a lot of little rocks on Mars!] It was available at the rovers homepage but it looks like they've taken it down because of bandwidth suckage. Apparently, they've had nearly one billion hits since Saturday, totalling nearly 15 terabytes of data. Putting 'Paris Hilton' in their meta tags has really paid off! The rover won't get out onto the surface until next week at the earliest so we probably won't see anything new till then. Tho the mast camera should have a complete panorama shot for tomorrow. I wish they had a microphone on the rover. I know it would only capture the sound of the wind howling [or not] but it would be cool to have sound to go with the pictures. Yeah, I'm weird.
Mars Rovers Home
PBS' Nova Mars Special
SpaceFlight Now: Landing of Spirit
Space.com Red Planet Rovers
Space-Graphics