The Spirit rover is two-thirds of the way to the Columbia Hills, having traveled over 1.5 miles to date. She set a record for autonomous navigation on sol 125, traveling over 200 feet without guidance from the rover team. And now, thanks to Mike Malin's great camera onboard the Mars Global Surveyor, we've got an awesome new view of what awaits Spirit as she approaches the Colombia Hills. Take a look!
It's also worth mentioning that from the updates I'm reading over at NASA/JPL, not only will Spirit make it too the edge of the hills, but if she stays healthy, she'll climb to the area labeled "Lookout Point" and hopefully down into the Columbia Hills basin -- and all of this in the next month or so. What an amazing journey.
