This image taken by the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's panoramic camera shows the outcrop that sits just inside the small crater where the rover landed. Highlighted in black and white is the region dubbed "El Capitan," where scientists gained their first clues to the outcrop's watery past. The color portion of the image is low-resolution, and the black and white portion is high-resolution.

This image from the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's panoramic camera shows the results of the second drilling by the rock abrasion tool, located on the rover's instrument deployment device, or "arm." The drilling took place on a target called "Guadalupe" within the "El Capitan" region of the Meridiani Planum, Mars, rock outcrop.
As with the first rock abrasion tool target called "McKittrick," the grinding process at "Guadalupe" has generated a significant amount of fine-grained, reddish dust. Color and spectral properties of the dust show that it may contain some fine-grained crystalline red hematite. This image is an enhanced color composite generated from three different panoramic camera filters.

This image shows the results of the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's grinding of its first target with the rock abrasion tool, located on its instrument deployment device, or "arm." The target, called "McKittrick," is located on the "El Capitan" region of the rock outcrop at Meridiani Planum, Mars.
The grinding process at "McKittrick" has generated a significant amount of fine-grained, reddish dust. Color and spectral properties of the dust show that it may contain some fine-grained crystalline red hematite. This image is an enhanced color composite generated from three different panoramic camera filters.

The red marks in this image, taken by the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's panoramic camera, indicate holes made by the rover's rock abrasion tool, located on its instrument deployment device, or "arm." The lower hole, located on a target called "McKittrick," was made on the 30th martian day, or sol, of Opportunity's journey. The upper hole, located on a target called "Guadalupe" was made on sol 34 of the rover's mission. The mosaic image was taken using a blue filter at the "El Capitan" region of the Meridiani Planum, Mars, rock outcrop. The image, shown in a vertical-perspective map projection, consists of images acquired on sols 27, 29 and 30 of the rover's mission.

This image mosaic from the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the distant horizon from Opportunity's position inside a small crater at Meridiani Planum, Mars. To the left is a large crater about 700 meters (2,296 feet) away from the landing site and approximately 200 meters (656 feet) in diameter. In the center, Opportunity's heatshield and its impact mark can be seen at a distance of approximately 875 meters (one-half mile) from the landing site. To the right, a string of bounce marks left by the rover's airbags is visible. Near the mark just outside the landing site crater's rim is the largest rock in the area. This rock is about 40 centimeters (16 inches) across and 50 meters (164 feet) from the rover's position. The image is an enhanced color composite acquired on the 35th and 36th martian days, or sols, of Opportunity's journey, using three different wavelength filters.

NASA's Spirit used its panoramic camera to capture this view of the rocky terrain just to the left of straight ahead after finishing a drive to the northeast on March 5, 2004. Some rocks on the horizon may be at the rim of the crater nicknamed "Bonneville," Spirit's destination in coming days

ON A MARCHE SUR MARS

Vendredi 19 mars 2004
Durée : 0h51

Documentaire de 52' écrit par Laurent Lichtenstein, réalisé par Greg Lanning et Laurent Lichtenstein, et coproduit par Bonne Pioche/Moonbeam Films, avec la participation de France 5, de France 2 et du CNC, en association avec Channel Four Television Corporation, et avec le soutien de la Procirep-Société des Producteurs, de l'Angoa-Agicoa, du Conseil régional de la Réunion, du Département de la Réunion et du Programme européen Media. Production déléguée : Emmanuel Priou et Anne Reevell. Musique : Thierry Durel. Narration : Vincent Violette. 2004. A quoi ressemblerait l'escalade du plus haut sommet du système solaire, le Mont Olympus, situé sur la planète Mars ? Ce volcan éteint, haut de 22 kilomètres (soit près de trois fois la hauteur de l'Everest !) et large de 500 kilomètres à la base, pourrait abriter le Luxembourg à l'intérieur de son seul cratère ! Ce documentaire propose à une équipe d'alpinistes, explorateurs et cosmonautes confirmés (dont Patrick Bérault, Catherine Destivelle et Alain Robert) de simuler, dans des conditions aussi proches que possible de la réalité martienne, cette improbable ascension. Répliques du Mont Olympus à l'échelle de la terre, le piton de la Fournaise, volcan de l'île de la Réunion, sert de cadre à cette longue et périlleuse marche. Le film suit donc leur progression sur les falaises abruptes, le long des ravines sans fonds, dans les canyons volcaniques et les déserts de glace. Il les observe testant leur équipement, surmontant les obstacles, explorant le grand cratère. Parallèlement à l'aventure humaine, l'accent est mis sur les dernières avancées scientifiques, géologiques et technologiques de la recherche sur Mars. Enfin, grâce à des images de synthèse sophistiquées, des séquences filmées de l'escalade sont incrustées dans un paysage martien. A la croisée de plusieurs genres, ce film entraîne le téléspectateur dans une formidable aventure à la fois humaine et scientifique...

La chaîne France 5 consacre une émission spéciale le vendredi 19 mars 2004 à 16h40 .
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@Seth:
On se demande bien ce qu'ils vont pouvoir annoncer
Ca searit génial si c'était ce à quoi tout le monde pense ....

Yessssssss ....... i trully believe the same think !!!!
That would be incredible .......
Limitte aussi important que le 1er pas sur la Lune ........ et cette fois-ci, on pourra dire "j'étais là quand la Nasa, en ce fameux 09 mars 2004, annonca ......"