100 Quotes by Steve Squyres

Today is day 591 of our 90-day mission to Mars.

We've been very curious to figure out what they are.

What we have found once we've gotten up into the summit region...the driving has gotten very, very good. The ground is hard here. There is not a lot of fine-grain stuff around. What there is piled up in drifts. This is because the summit region is exposed to the wind; it's very windy. In some parts of the summit region, we barely leave tracks.

We have to assume the worst...that the solar panels are going to stay dirty and just get dirtier.

I actually see the Mars year anniversary as being more significant, ... We will have seen Mars over an entire seasonal cycle.

It is a big step. We've really switched gears.

Our speed of travel is driven as much by survival as by discovery.

Our requirement for how far we should be able to traverse over the course of the mission, was 600 meters. These hills are five times that far away. OK, so don't sit here and think, 'Oh, we're going to go to the hills.' We're going to go 'toward' the hills.

Spirit is our tough, hardworking robot. Opportunity looks like she just came off the showroom floor, clean and pretty.