This is planetary radio.

This is planetary radio. I'm astonished. I'm blown away.

Opportunity has set down in a bizarre alien landscape.

That was Mars Exploration Rover Principal investigator Steve Squires

on the astounding first images from the second spacecraft to

land safely on Mars this month.

Hello everyone and congratulations.

Our species has once again gone where no one has gone before.

There was plenty of reason to celebrate Saturday evening and Sunday morning January 24 and 25.

Here's NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe.

Certainly the imagination in the interest of, I would suggest, the world has been captured by this remarkable set of achievements as hard as it is.

And again, there are 4 billion hits to the website in the last 24 days.

Yeah, probably by the month.

Probably by the year.

There's not a billion here in the last few hours, I'm sure.

But that's phenomenal.

And that's exceeds all of what we got on the NASA websites all of last year.

Now that's, you know, testimonial to, I think, the remarkable interest that there is out there and just absolute amazement at the

capacity to do something like this.

Head of JPL, Charles Ilocchi.

I'm just teachers. So I'm just

So I'm going to be extremely brief. I was thinking I was coming here a friend of mine told me

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