I'm Going to Mars!

Mars Rovers - Spirit and Opportunity

NASA launched two powerful new Mars rovers named Spirit and Opportunity. Spirit and Opportunity are larger, more mobile and better equipped than the 1997 Mars Pathfinder rover. Each carries a sophisticated set of instruments to search for evidence about whether past environments at selected sites were wet enough to be hospitable to life. The two rovers are identical, but will land at different regions of Mars.

Both rovers were launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Spirit ascended on June 10, 2003, and Opportunity followed on July 7, 2003 Spirit reached Mars on January 4, 2004, Opportunity will arrive on January 25, 2004.

Landings:

Spirit Mars Rover landed January 4, 2004 at 8:35 pm PST

Opportunity Mars Rover landed January 25, 2004 at 9:05 pm PST

Mars MER Mission Links

Mars Rover Mission Blog
Very Very cool blog, better than all the commercial sites you will see!
A Very Unofficial Blog Following the Twin NASA Exploration Rovers: Spirit and Opportunity.

JPL - Mars Exploration Rovers
The official JPL site for the Mars Rovers

Athena Mars Exploration Rovers
The official Cornell website that discusses the mission science.
The mission seeks to determine the history of climate and water at a site on Mars where conditions may once have been favorable to life. The landing sites at Gusev Crater and Meridiani Planum were selected on the basis of intensive study of orbital data collected by the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft and other missions.

SPACE.com -- Mars Rover Special Report
Has good coverage of all Mars missions including Beagle2.

Mars Exploration Rover Lego Set
I just couldn't resist!