That makes two...

[blufive]

NASA's second Mars Exploration Rover, Opportunity, has landed safely on Meridiani Planum and is sending back its first pictures.

[a little later: Spaceflight Now has the first assembled panorama (B&W only) and an early colour image]

[via slashdot]

Comments

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Cor! That's quite a different view from Spirit's - it will be interesting to see what it comes up with. Those round markings on the ground do look spookily like footprints...

[blufive.livejournal.com]

It is rather different, isn't it? IIRC, this is the first probe to land at a higher altitude - previous ones, all the way back to the Vikings, went to the lowlands.