Mars Rover Opportunity takes its first glimpse of Victoria Crater in the Meridiani Planum region.

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The radar received its first radio echo from the Martian surface during a test on Sept.18, providing a preliminary indication that the entire instrument is working properly. Researchers will use the instrument for more test observations at the end of this month. Communication with all spacecraft at Mars will be intermittent during most of October while that planet is behind the sun from Earth's perspective. The two-year-long main science phase of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter mission will begin in November.

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Advanced Land Observing Satellite Three-Dimensional View of Millau Viaduct, World's Highest Bridge in Southern France.
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Phoenix Mars Lander on track for Aug 2007 launch.

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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Successfully Concludes Aerobraking. Ground controllers today successfully performed a major maneuver of NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter placing the spacecraft in a stable orbit around Mars.
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Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) has now been orbiting Mars for 9 years! It was the evening of 11 September 1997, Pacific Daylight time, but it was early in the morning on 12 September 1997, Greenwich Mean Time, when MGS fired its engines to slow down and drop into an elliptical orbit around Mars. The Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) began acquiring its first images just a few days later.

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30th Anniversary of Mars Viking 2 Lander.

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