Alfred McEwen Quotations

It could have implications for moons outside the solar system. It gives us lots to ponder in terms of physical science as far as the energies it takes to produce these (plumes).

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.

Mars is the most habitable planet accessible to us. It's not extremely cold or hot. It's possible to imagine human colonies on Mars.

We know that rocks have been transported from Mars to Earth. It's possible that life existed only on Mars at one point. It's possible that rocks could have carried spores and life to Earth and that we're Martians.

It's great these images turned out well because a lot of things had to work right, including exactly how the spacecraft points and the stability. It turned out just right.

Any place where there's liquid water, there's life.

These high-resolution images of Mars are thrilling, and unique given the early morning time-of-day.

While a little bit of heat is produced by radioactive decay, this is a very small world and that (heating) is pretty minor.

They're great images. They're what all of us were hoping for - better than some people were expecting.

The images are wonderful. We're learning a great deal about how to best acquire and process these giant images from our very complicated camera.