Monthly Archives: December 2010

Not a long post today, I’m jjust going to invite you to click on this image and then spend a while exploring the northern wall of Santa Maria crater…

Ah… looking at that image, which is a view looking back towards the crater, showing her own wheel tracks leading up to its edge, it seems that Oppy has backed away from Santa Maria in anticipation of driving on to a … Continue reading →

All these pictures I’ve been posting… very pleased with them, ‘cos they’re so pretty, and hopefully dramatic sometimes, too… but they don’t really give you a sense of scale, do they? They don’t really show the true size of Santa … Continue reading →

Welcome back! I hope everyone had a good Christmas and is now looking forward to the New Year celebrations, too. Well, I was completely wrong, and some new images did come back on Christmas Day, so here are a couple … Continue reading →

…and all over the internet Mars- and rover-enthusiasts are still shaking their heads in disbelief at just how slap-across-the-face impressive Santa Maria crater has turned out to be. From orbit it looked, well, interesting, but the images being sent back … Continue reading →

Apologies (if anyone’s actually bothered, or has missed my updates, haha!) for the lack of posts the past couple of days, but I’ve been very busy, what with work, lunar eclipses and earthquakes (no, really, we had an ‘earthquake’ here … Continue reading →

The latest batch of images to come back from Oppy have, I think it’s safe to say, confirmed that Santa Maria was definitely worth stopping off at on our way to Endeavour. This crater, which looks so small and average … Continue reading →

We’re still waiting for the first full-resolution colour images of Santa Maria to come back, but it’s possible to make a preview panorama using the “stamp” images on one of the MER websites and colourising them. So here you are, … Continue reading →

Oppy has now reached Santa Maria’s rim, and will soon begin an exhaustive scientific study of the crater and its surroundings. The next batch of pictures that will come back will allow us to make the first colour panoramas of … Continue reading →

Having arrived at Santa Maria, Oppy is now creeping towards the edge of the crater for her first real look over and into it. And the latest pictures give a tantalising glimpse into the future, to when Oppy reaches the … Continue reading →