Some statistics:

48,000 people were watching NASA TV webcast as Spirit landed. To date, 223,000 people have tuned into the NASA TV Webcast at some point or another to watch Spirit-related webcasts.

In the 48 hours ending at 11 am EST Monday, NASA had 513 million hits and 86 million pages downloaded. CNN.com averages about 30 million hits per day - 80 million hits during breaking news.

For all of 2003, NASA had 2.8 billion hits and 287 million page views. In just 48 hours, NASA has seen more than half a billion hits.

Excluding February, an average day for NASA in 2003 was 867,000 page views and 8.3 million hits.

Biggest 24-hour periods in NASA Internet history:

• Spirit Landing (Jan. 3-4, 2004): 225 million hits
• Loss of Columbia (Feb. 1, 2003): 75 million hits
• Mars Polar Lander attempted landing (Dec. 3, 1999): 69 million hits
• Mars Pathfinder (July 9, 1997; 1st business day after landing): 47 million hits

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