While I'm being cranky about graphics in the mass media, a quick Bronx cheer for the New York Times and their Mars rover story this morning, which opens:
NASA's Opportunity Mars rover spent 22 months trekking almost six miles to a large scientifically promising crater. Like a tourist who asks a passer-by to take a picture for proof he made it to a famous site, the robot rover has had another spacecraft snap an image of it sitting on the rim
The picture isn't included with the article. There's a very nice picture taken by the Opportunity rover, but not the picture of the rover. For that, you need to go directly to NASA.
It's a nice picture. Pity it wasn't with the article talking about it...
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