The engineers and scientists for NASA's Spirit are eager to get the rover off its lander and out exploring the terrain that Spirit's pictures are revealing, but caution comes first.
A color mosaic from Spirit is the highest-resolution picture ever sent from Mars, more than three times as detailed as images from Mars Pathfinder in 1997.
Thanks to the Internet, NASA can bring Mars into your living room, to a local Internet cafe, or anywhere else with access to the World Wide Web.
A shallow depression in the ground near the landing site -- described as "a window into the interior of Mars" -- may become an early destination for NASA's Spirit rover.
NASA's Spirit Rover is starting to examine its new surroundings.
A traveling robotic geologist from NASA has landed on Mars.
Administrator O'Keefe salutes "this amazing feat," calling it "a tribute to the dedication to the many men and women throughout NASA and our many partners."