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Stu, outcrops or not, these new images are really amazing. At last they look like rendered PR images from the mission web pages .

The movie is really stunning. That's what I call 'a comprehensive summary' . I would appreciate better resolution though.

This problem is pointless. Guys, you are not looking at SCIENTIFIC pictures. You are looking at pictures released for publicity. Normal people don't care for a science, they just want to see nice images of Martian landscape.
All in all the raw images sky is affected by a mere noise - those pixels in the sky mean nothing. You can just erase them and you lose no valid information.
Also, as you can find, not ALL pics have been edited in this way and many of them have originally illuminated sky. The only question now is its color. Should it be blue or reddish? Hmm, the pictures made by amateurs look damn good. But I would rather believe experts from NASA. Not because they would be smarter, but simply because they perfectly know their own MER-onboard hardware...

Do you know what confuses me? What was first - the Eagle crater or water in the same location?
If the crater then water (sea) could'nt be there too long. The crater would be probably much more eroded (just like craters on Earth).
If water then how can it be possible that we can see almost intact outcrop with clear water engravings on it? The impact, which would create the crater later, would crush and melt it down.

Ok, you have seen the heatshield. Now look at the parachute:

The crater IS interesting, but I have always been looking forward to the hills.

I can't be sure about that (the picture comes with no caption) but I think this newest Spirits's pic shows the far rim of Boneville with the fallen heat shield!!! wow!

[http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/ … 17L0M1.JPG]http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery....0M1.JPG

No, this image is the sharpest possible.
Tha darker marks inside the BB are really scratches made with RAT. More information with an explaining picture here:
[http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/ … 0225a.html]http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery....5a.html

Not 3x3mm. It is 3x3 cm.

Yes, this image is quite convincing! You are probably right.

1smlstp, another option is that the spherical object in the pic could have just fallen down the slope above the outcrop and left stuck in the crevice.

This is an interesting image:
[http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/ … 52R0M1.JPG]http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery....0M1.JPG
[http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/ … 52R0M1.JPG]http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery....0M1.JPG
It shows a landscape out of the crater which wasn't visible from the lander. Also on the horizon and in the leftmost part of the pic you can see two objects: dark and bright. They are believed to be the lander's heat shell and parachute.

To Atitarev: Both reasons. I understand they are worried about possibility of nuclear risks during start.
However I have already read something about initiative 'Don't spoil Mars with atoms!' (or similar). What can a reasonable man answer to this stupid hysteria? Rather do nothing but send the 'disastrous' atoms to Mars!