The View from the Top of Husband Hill

chriscrick writes "After 14 months of climbing, the Mars rover Spirit has reached the summit of Husband Hill, 269 feet above the edge of the Martian plain. The panoramic view from the top is spectacular. According to lead scientist Steve Squyres, 'What field geologists typically do - and Spirit is a robotic field geologist - is you climb to the top of the nearest hill and take a look around so you get the lay of the land and figure out where you want to go.'"

Comments

interseting

[schnits0r]

Mars rover Spirit climbs on top of husband....husband rolls over a minute later and lights a cigarette.

Parking lots and a water tower

[twelveinchbrain]

Surely those must be signs of life on Mars, no?

The shadows are pointing in difference directions!

[TummyX]

This is clearly a fabrication by the bush adminstration to divert attention from new orleans and iraq

/michaelmoore

Re:Beautiful Imagery

[Geoffreyerffoeg]

the Mar's missions

I'm too shocked to make a proper grammar Nazi rant here.

Re:Everything you ever wanted to know about Spirit

[lostchicken]

The Wikipedia! The best karma whoring invention since Google.

Re:Full 360 picture

[SpaceLifeForm]

Jaw dropping? Check out the footprints on the very left.

Rumour has it the FEMA director was last spotted there.

Re:Everything you ever wanted to know about Spirit

[kiore]

To comply with the GPL full source code was shipped with the rovers.

All you need to do is go up to Spirit and retrieve the CD in the left front hubcap.

BTW: while you are doing this, NASA would be grateful if you could bring back a few kilograms of assorted mars rock.