We got some more pictures of everyone looking at the first data to come down. You can tell how excited everyone is. (And don’t we look great in our new shirts??

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The second image has already started to come down. We are all still on our high from the first image. To imagine that we will have thousands of these images in the next few years, it’s incredible!

Things are starting to calm down here a bit. We’re enjoying some food, going back to the engineering data to make sure everythings running perfect, and all in all, we’re just starting to soak in the events of the day. But we won’t have long, in the next week we will take about 70 of these pictures, before we are turned of for the upcoming Solar conjunction. Who knows what mysteries of Mars will be unveiled during this exciting time!

Here it is!

A picture of everyone at HiROC, full of reporters. We are hard at work trying to get the pictures ready to be released to the public.

Here’s a few pictures of HiROC people with their first look at the HiRISE pictures.

First look at the pictures!

We are hoping to release these pictures to the general public sometime today, stay tuned!

It is an amazing site at HiROC now. The team members all look like kids at Christmas time, opening that present that they’ve wanted for so very long. There are already amazing things we want to study more, amazing things that we can learn from Mars already. It’s going to be an amazing two year Primary Science Phase! We are all transfixed, studying these incredible pictures!

We’ve been looking at the first images for the last several minutes, they are incredible. We have identified many boulders, craters, channels, and other incredible features. Everything is looking as well as we have dreamed. Stay tuned for more!

The first picture is already coming in! They look amazing! Stay tuned for details!

We are now receiving the telemetry from the second image taken today from HiRISE. Everything from the spacecraft says that the second image was taken successfully. We are still awaiting the first image to come through, the quick look timer expires soon, meaning that we will be able to have our first look at the image sometime in the next few hours. Stay tuned for more.

Now we’re just sitting and waiting for the images to arrive. We’re all SO excited and impatient to see our new images, and this feels like sitting around in April waiting for Christmas morning…