Steven Squyres Quotations

There is certainly talk of getting another extension.

For much of its history, it was a very forbidding place.

This whole mission has surpassed all of our expectations.

We need to drive like hell and get to the hills before the winter sets in.

When you look at the most important accomplishments of the mission, a lot of them were due to Opportunity. It was the one that found the really powerful evidence for a habitable environment in Mars' past. It's sort have been the good luck rover for this whole thing.

When we opened our eyes, we saw bedrock exposed in the walls of the crater.

We're stunned by the diversity of rocks. This stuff looks like it was put into a blender.

The search is difficult to achieve in a single mission. When we do a mission that is aimed at finding extant life, which probably requires liquid water at the surface, we will know exactly the place to go.

It was evidence that water at one time had saturated the ground here.

It's a cold, dry miserable place today. But we have got these tantalizing clues that, in the past, it used to be warmer and wetter.

It sounds like a crazy way to land on Mars, but it's actually tried and tested.

It's not going to fill in the potholes. It's not going to put a roof over people's heads. What it does is it helps to address really fundamental questions of who we are, where we came from, by which I mean we can learn how life came about.

The Beagle 2 is excellent, ambitious. Ours are excellent, but we have different instrument packages and different aims. I don't see the material for the controversy.

It'll be spectacular if we can get there.

It has everything a human field biologist has and then much, much more.

You create a pile of dirt and then drive over it. We may have to learn to drive all over again.