Impatient Oppy revving her engine…

The Mars rover Opportunity is clearly getting impatient to leave Victoria Crater and get on her way; today hundreds of images, old and new, came back to Earth, suggesting the rover is clearing her onboard computer’s memory of old pictures in preparation to start the long, loooong trek SE to Endurance Crater.
Here are a couple of [...]

Someone else with “A Passion For Mars”…

It’s fairly well known by now that I have a vague interest in the planet Mars… just a vague one, mind… Well, if you do too, then there’s a new book in the shops right now that you absolutely have to go and buy…

The book is – if you can’t read the title [...]