Steve Squyres Mount Quotations

The British mountaineer George Mallory was once famously asked why he was trying to climb Mount Everest and his famous reply was 'because it is there.' That's a compelling argument when you are a mountaineer. But for an $850 million rover mission you better have a better reason than that.

That's no Mount Everest, but for a little rover this was a heck of a climb,

That's no Mount Everest, but for a little rover this is a heck of a climb.