I look at this with absolute amazement. Take a step back and think that the average distance from Earth to Mars is about 225 million km at any particular point in time (depending on orbit)<p>To think humans being are capable of building something that complex, sending it that far, landing it successfully and subsequently transmitting high quality images is as mind blowing to me as I am sure our forepersons before us considered the moon landing. It is just staggering when you consider that we are looking at <i>Mars</i> as clear as its depicted in <i>Total Recall</i> (the Arnie version which doesn't suck) and many other Hollywood depictions.<p>The feat of technological capabilities achieved by NASA in this project just definitively illustrates to me that anything human beings want to achieve - can be achieved. I hope this project, the people involved and the continuous breakthroughs it realizes inspires more people to go and do great and amazing things. Nothings impossible - we just don't understand it all yet.