First, it's a bit strange to put this entry in the "Nuthin' Special" category, but that's the way it goes. I just wanted to offer a quick congratulations to the JPL team for the perfect landing of the Opportunity rover this evening. Clearly, this isn't just any ol' project! I happened to check my Yahoo! news page just after the landing and immediately clicked over to JPL's Mars rover web site, and then fired up the NASA TV link in time to catch the beginning of the official news conference in Pasadena. Very neat to watch indeed. Lots of cheering, applause, and excitement. Right now, I'm watching the 2:00 a.m. update. Everything is going perfectly with the rover (in fact it's going better than that, if that's possible). The geologists are simply gushing with enthusiasm about the landing site (the soil, the appearance of bedrock -- the first image of Martian bedrock, etc.). Even better, we're getting to see the first images from Opportunity, and even the first color image at the same time as the geologists.