Steve Squyres quotes
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“The thing that sets Mars apart is that it is the one planet that is enough like Earth that you can imagine life possibly once having taken hold there.”
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“I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give everybody a sense of what exploring the surface of another world is really like.”
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“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.”
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“My style of leadership is to lead with the lightest touch that I possibly can.”
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“That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.”
-- Steve SquyresSource : "Person of the Week: Steven Squyres". abcnews.go.com. January 9.
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“The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for.”
-- Steve SquyresSource : "NASA rover wakes up on Mars" By Richard Stenger, www.cnn.com. January 4, 2004.
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“We didn't know if the rover could climb up or down the hills of the crater.”
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“Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.”
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“We have concluded that the rocks here were once soaked in liquid water. It changed their texture, and it changed their chemistry. We've been able to read the tell-tale clues the water left behind, giving us confidence in that conclusion.”
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“There's no way to actually turn the rover off.”
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“I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist.”
-- Steve SquyresSource : "Person of the Week: Steven Squyres". ABC News, abcnews.go.com. January 09, 2004.
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