When I woke up this morning . . .

. . . we had landed on Mars!  Not me of course, but Curiosity, NASA's Mars rover that set off in November.  It will be there for nearly two years looking for signs of life.  Unfortunately the chances of little green men are slim.  But evidence of microbial life, or specifically the conditions favourable for it, well now they just might find that.  Plus they have a "LASER" (Austin Powers anyone?)  This laser will be checking rock composition.  Sorry have I just made that sound boring now?  Have a look at this instead:

This is the shadow of Curiosity on Mars.  Proof we are actually there!  The early images are all going to be low resolution like this, but later on in the week they will start to take larger colour images.  Exciting!