Now they're waking up to this very beautiful scene behind me, the Euphrates River.

CNN: Bellini

"Ron Greeley was a valued colleague and friend, and this scene, with its beautiful wind-blown drifts and dunes, captures much of what Ron loved about Mars, " said Steve Squyres of Cornell University in Ithaca, N.

MSN: A stunning close-up of Mars taken by visiting NASA rover