helios102 wrote:Something you all seemed to have missed . . .
Not only was this very picture featured on APOD 2004 Aug 3 - with the very same captions - but if you look closely (newest picture is best) at the bottom centre of the image , between the tracks there appears to be a size 10 Astronauts boot print!
Any comments?
I'm ashamed to confess I actually didn't notice this. Normally I've got a pretty good handle on what those robots are up to, but I didn't even notice it was the wrong crater for current events.
Here's a newer version for you in the right crater. More of those messy footprints!
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/ ... f1563.html
By the way, expect yet another spectacular panorama from Opportunity in the coming weeks. They've been pulling down around a 100 pancam images per day of the Cape Verde outcrop lately while they plot their next driving moves. There's also a few funny features I've noticed in the raw images that should get Richard Hoagland pretty excited, assuming he's still paying attention. Not quite as good as bigfoot, but it doesn't take much to get that guy on a roll.
"Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man." ~J. Robert Oppenheimer (speaking about Albert Einstein)
... now you've given terrorists 
a blueprint to destroy the earth!!! 
Someone needs to put a Nike sole on some piece of future rover test equipment that needs a good grip on the ground anyway, just to get things stirring back here.