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There may not be any new pictures from the rover because of its current troubles, but the NASA page has an amazing shot of the landing site taken from Mars Global Surveyor (here's how they did it with examples using the 1997 Pathfinder lander, which was actually considerably harder to see, for practice). The rover site also has some new animations of the landing based on telemetry from the descent as it actually happened (which was a bit hairier than the idealized versions you might have seen earlier).

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