One more good news: They still has one target marker left, they've led Hayabusa to land at the same place of the previous attempt.

They don't look like happy campers.

As of 6:50 JST, the altitude is approximately 180 meters.
As of 6:55 JST, the altitude is approximately 160 meters.

Looks like the rate of decent has been halfed (~7cm/sec)

Very, very nice panoramas - and such wide angle views too. 

I assume they are based on pancam images, and then (by the looks of it) color adjusted for consistency?

Some of the skies looks perhaps a little too yellow for my liking, but what do I know, I have never been to Mars. 

My only minor gripe would be that the otherwise very cool semi-transparent regions on your website make it somewhat hard to read the text in them when scrolling, given the static textured background behind them.

Airbag

 

It's half resolution to bring it into the realms of attachment size - I'll try and find somewhere to put the full res version tomorrow (when I'm not connecting through dialup).

Very very good work. Any possible way to get full res versions of your work? They're too good to be neutered down to partial res.

Is it me or does it look like if they wanted to, they could get to homeplate tomorrow.  This site seeing is great but lets just get there

Good point, james!
I updated the plot, up to now Spirit lasted 7.5 times the primary mission life and covered a distance 9 times longer 
I already highlighted in this short article.

Just saw the latest director update...

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mer/flightdir.cfm

And he shows the card that Doug sent in for the anniversary!   

Very nice! 

Not sure if this has already been posted but....

I already posted image in another thread, but now I think this is the best place for Full-Res version.
This is my tribute to MER team, deepest gratitude to you!

perhaps that if the people who do searches like "Mars alien civilization attacks by UFO's" find this forum, they will get instruction, and realise that those who spread false theories are kooks.

Each time I was speaking of kooks on this site, it was alway about the spreaders of false theories. That 20% of the population believe them is not because 20% of the population are mad, it is because they are not enough instructed, or they are not confident with a society wich deceived them in a way or another. In such a situation, kooks have an easy play. If, with this forum, we can contribute to revert this situation, it would be of some use, not just a pass time for us.

A wise caution would be to use a language more accessible to common people, avoid "scientific style" and obscure abbreviations, and when we use an uncommon word, give the explanation. I began to do so recently , realizing that more and more people are reading us, not just specialist or enlightened amateurs.
Thas does not forbid to expell real kooks when there are some. Or to answer briefly but accurately to suspicious questions, as Doug used to do in many occasions. He did in this way, I think, to avoid to straightforwardly rebuff people who are just mislead by kooks, but who are not kooks themselves.

Team member Jim Rice calls one such distant target, a rough and rugged terrain to the south, "the Promised Land."

Happy Marsiversary Spirit