That, naturally, leaves one important question: where is Beagle 2, the ill-fated British lander?
Europe entered the Mars race in 2003 with the Mars Express Orbiter and the Beagle 2 lander.
Most agree that Beagle 2 has more ambitious objectives, but whether it will deliver the goods is the question.
Dr John Bridges of London's Natural History Museum, a member of the Beagle 2 landing site team, believes both targets are exciting.
So far the excellent performance of Mars Express has been somewhat overshadowed by the loss of its lander Beagle 2, which should have touched down on the planet on Christmas Day.
But the main means of communication with Beagle 2 was always intended to be its mother ship, the European Space Agency's Mars Express, from which it was released on December 19th.
ECONOMIST: The current crop of Mars missions has got off to a bad start
The second apparent failure is that of Beagle 2.
ECONOMIST: The current crop of Mars missions has got off to a bad start
Mars Express went into an initial orbit around Mars at about the time that Beagle 2 was landing, and it is now being manoeuvred into an operational orbit that will take it over both poles.
ECONOMIST: The current crop of Mars missions has got off to a bad start
Last summer, when I first met Prof Siegert, I was too polite to remind him of what had happened to another British science project, the Beagle 2 mission to Mars, the spacecraft named after the ship that had carried Charles Darwin.
But Prof Colin Pillinger, the scientist behind the ill-fated Beagle-2 mission to Mars, said the printer would have to be really precise to be able to fabricate complex parts that usually make up the body of a spacecraft.
Asham had put New York in front 3-2 at 2:53, but Jay Beagle got the Capitals even again 4:26 later.
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