The Daily Mail (London, England), January 5th, 2004
Byline: TIM UTTON;KIRAN RANDHAWA
TO THE untrained eye, the grainy images looked nothing to get excited about.
But to Nasa scientists, the first pictures beamed back by their space probe from the surface of Mars were a cause for backslapping and whoops of delight.
After a seven-month voyage which had covered 106million miles, the Spirit rover landed on the Red Planet early yesterday.
The six-wheeled robot is now sending back black-and-white pictures as it seeks signs that Mars was once capable of supporting life.
Scientists soon had around 80 images of the Martian landscape, as well as a...
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