beautiful photo

This one is not from me. Spirit Spies Its Shadow. (Full resolution image and caption available at Planetary Photojournal.)

I've been keeping up, somewhat less consistently than a couple of months ago, with the MER missions and plan on posting an update soon (I know I said that a couple of weeks ago -- best of intentions and all that.) The nominal mission for Opportunity finished up last week which puts the combined MER mission fully into extended phase, now. The rovers are both in "making tracks" mode lately, heading toward the Southern Hills and Endurance Crater, and I expect things to get more exciting soon. Maybe that'll inspire more Mars mission-related posting :-)