Say goodbye to the area around Larry's Lookout, as Spirit is on the move again.

She's been wandering around the same tennis-court sized area for 3 months or so, taking a 360 deg pan at Larrys lookout, heading up the hill a little, spotting the Methuselah outcropping, revisiting Larry's Lookout, and is now heading not straight up the hill, but slightly off to one side.

I know that people tend to stop 'watching' the rovers when they park up for proloned periods, but if you're a martian petrol head who likes progress, then the next few weeks should be interesting, hopefully traversing on a long arc around the NW side of Husband hill eventually ending up driving SE to the summit.

The very latest images are usuall here - http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spirit/ - but as ever be beware of old images coming down out of order to that in which they were taken

The road ahead