20 Quotes by Richard Zurek

What we're really looking for is that sweet spot where we can go down with other instruments and look for evidence of life.

We'll begin to image the surface and look at its composition with detail that we've just not been able to do before.

If we find evidence that (those) minerals are there, there must have been a time in Mars' early history when there was standing water on Mars' surface.

For the science teams right now, this is a period of waiting.

We'll be looking at things with a level of detail we've not seen before.

We're bringing more capability to the planet. What we're really doing now is establishing the background environment that we have to deal with when we plan future missions.

With the subsurface of Mars, we've literally just scratched the surface and we're trying to probe, now, more than a couple of feet into it.

We're especially interested in water, whether it's ice, liquid or vapor. Learning more about where the water is today and where it was in the past will also guide future studies about whether Mars ever supported life.

We don't want to be hauling cement to Mars. That's very expensive. Better to know what we can make on the surface of the planet.