100 Quotes by Steve Squyres

For Opportunity, we're going to continue south through the etched terrain, studying bedrock as we go and heading toward Victoria crater.

This is a journey into the unknown, to something completely new.

The hill is very steep in places ... and the orbital images show a lot of tasty geology, some of it in pretty nasty-looking places. All in all, the next several weeks are going to present us with some of the most interesting route-finding decisions that we've faced in a long time, on both sides of the planet.

Also, we're doing what any field geologist would do in an area like this: climbing to a good vantage point for plotting a route.

The launch is a milestone, but just one of many along the way. Landing historically is where the most risk is involved.

Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.

My style of leadership is to lead with the lightest touch that I possibly can.

We didn't know if the rover could climb up or down the hills of the crater.

What we initially conceived as a fairly simple geologic experiment on Mars ultimately turned into humanity's first real overland expedition across another planet. Spirit explored just as we would have, seeing a distant hill, climbing it, and showing us the vista from the summit. And she did it in a way that allowed everyone on Earth to be part of the adventure.