Just another working Sol on Mars

The Spirit and Opportunity rovers continue to probe away on Mars, as they have since January 2004. Both will pass the 1000 Sol mark before 2007. Having not checked in very regularly since the first year, I took another poke around the rover's home and the raw image archive, definitely the best part of it, to see what was new.

(Left: Right Navigation Camera Non-linearized Full frame EDR acquired on Sol 959 of Opportunity's mission to Meridiani Planum at approximately 13:29:09 Mars local solar time. NASA/JPL)


Update: On second thought, the Press Release area is pretty cool, too. Take the "false color" images of the surface, for example. What exactly does "false" mean in this context, considering that if you were on Mars, you would not be seeing in black and white, but in color, and certainly through a tinted helmet which would alter the "real" UV-rich light, too.