100 Quotes by Steve Squyres

One mystery weve been dealing with for a long time is the origin of the little dark cobbles that we occasionally see out on the plains,

One mystery we've been dealing with for a long time is the origin of the little dark 'cobbles' that we occasionally see out on the plains.

Nobody has the display capability in their homes you'd need to really see these images in all their grandeur. One panorama we created was 4,000 pixels high and 24,000 pixels around, and your laptop just can't display that. But on an IMAX screen five stories tall, you're standing on the edge of the crater. You're there.

I don't have a belief regarding that question.

But that's purely conjecture at this point à a working hypothesis. Everything is on the table until we've gotten more data down.

I have a huge amount of respect for what they've accomplished,

For Spirit, we're going to head down the hill, looking for bedrock and heading toward Home Plate,

For Spirit, the priority has been to reach a safe winter haven.

For the scientists, it may be a chance to look at the deepest fresh hole in the ground that we'll ever see on Mars. ... For the engineers, it's an unprecedented chance to see how a heat shield performed during entry through the martian atmosphere. There's something for everybody.