Steve Squyres Rover Quotations

There are cliffs the rover could fall over and die if we aren't careful. We are gong to proceed carefully and methodically.

Easy problem to find and fix, but it happened at just the wrong time and cost us data, and one more sol, ... Another first for the Mars Exploration Rover Project.

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.