100 Quotes by Steve Squyres

Spirit has given us a wonderful window into the very ancient past of Mars. It was a violent place, a place where meteorite impacts, volcanic explosions happened frequently, where hot stuff was raining from the sky.

That was waiting to bite us. If Opportunity had landed first, it would have had the same problem.

Wind has to be involved at some level you figure. Frost might have helped. A frost build-up on arrays could coagulate the dust...but the fact is that we don't understand it very well. But I'll take it.

We can see most of the crater from where we are right now, and we've made the decision that we're going to traverse around it on its western side. We're actually going to start the drive around the crater by going north a little bit ... to get onto terrain that's mostly bedrock ... before we swing west.

We have taken a beautiful 360-degree panoramic image, which I truly believe will be one of the signature accomplishments of this mission,

We have taken a beautiful 360-degree panorama, which I believe is going to be truly one of the signature accomplishments of this mission.

We're also really getting the hang of driving in this terrain.

We've got some evidence, I think, of water flowing through the rocks, and changes in chemistry, I don't think we have what any of us would consider compelling evidence for surface water yet.

We're using the same landing technique that Pathfinder used.