The first color image from Spirit, America's most recent probe to Mars, is now available.







For those of you with high-bandwidth connections, a larger (8 MB) version of the photo is available from NASA. Spirit has been sending black and white photos back since it landed on January 3rd. NASA did this to save bandwidth (black and white photos take less bandwidth than color photos), but NASA is now starting to use Spirit's high resolution color cameras.

If all goes well, Spirit will be joined on Mars by its twin sister Opportunity. This rover should land just after midnight eastern time on January 25. Opportunity should land halfway around Mars from her sister.