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14 quotes by Steven Squyres

Steven W. Squyres (born January 9, 1956) is the James A. Weeks Professor of Physical Sciences at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. His research area is in planetary sciences, with a focus on large solid bodies in the solar system such as the terrestrial planets and the moons of the Jovian planets. Squyres is principal investigator of the Mars Exploration Rover Mission (MER). He is the recipient of the 2004 Carl Sagan Memorial Award and the...
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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... →

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This whole mission has surpassed all of our expectations.

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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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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... →

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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.

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

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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 can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist.

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That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

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

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Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.

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These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day.

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

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