[Pikamax]

This is the first color image of Mars taken by the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. It is the highest resolution image ever taken on the surface of another planet.

Image credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell University

[Phantom Lord]

Looks like a Hollywood sound stage to me.

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[TheBigB]

We send a billion-dollar camera across millions of miles to take a picture of Arizona. :)

[mlbford2]

Could be a poster for the Democratic political landscape for the 2004 election.

[Adder]

Eh. Needs trees and I don't see any places to fish.
Maybe we can get a snap of the Beagle.

"...shot of arizona" LOL
Thats funny!

[Pest]

Have they named the rocks yet?

[Phantom Lord]

Will the rover venture over to the American flag that Sheila Jackson Lee placed on Mars?

[billorites]

[metalboy]

There`s no life on Mars. It`s all Bushs fault.

[Stirner]

The link takes you to a story on Fox News. This is a bit off topic, but when you click on the link to the actual photographs, Fox has inserted a slide that says "Dec.6, After a flawless landing, Spirit sent back images...". They are off on the date by a month, but such things often happen to us at the changeover to a new year. But last night I was watching on Fox News when they had a brief story about the Senate Race between Thune and Daschle. What the announcer said was fine, but in the graphic they had pictures of the two candidates. Under Daschle's picture it said "Gephardt". Once again, a slip that any of us could make, but maybe Fox's quality control is going downhill or maybe even there's an internal troublemaker at work. Who knows?

[metalboy]

Hey, if you look closely, you can see some rocks there.

[Paradox]

Look carefully there in the upper left hand corner. You can just make out some artifact. It looks like a book. The cover says "To Serve Man".

[Vinnie_Vidi_Vici]

There is something in the extreme lower-right of the full hi res image that looks like a squashed cactus!!!!

[martin_fierro]

There's a Jack In The Box burger wrapper there in the middle distance.

[richardtavor]

As Rush Limbaugh said: "These liberals are so out of touch and so conspiracy-oriented, that they'll probably call these new color photos from Mars frauds shot from an SUV in Bush's ethnically cleansed Afghanistan."

[pbear8]

I hope the "Ground Force" crew gets here soon.

[reagan_fanatic]

The least the Martians could have done was tidy up the place a bit. What slobs.

[Fishrrman]

Doesn't this image bear an eerie resemblance to the one that was used for the opening credits of "The Twilight Zone" many years ago?

Cheers!
- John

[southernnorthcarolina]

I believe I correctly predicted the results of this very expensive snapshot a couple of days ago:

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I wait with bated breath.

My guess is that the color photos will confirm that some of the rocks on Mars are reddish-brown, and that some are brownish-red.

How much green have we spent on Mars? And why?

5 posted on 01/04/2004 7:08:57 PM EST by southernnorthcarolina

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I continue to be underwhelmed.