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.

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.

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

There's no way to actually turn the rover off.

My style of leadership is to lead with the lightest touch that I possibly can.

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.

Is there water still on Mars? I don't have a view on that because we don't have good data to answer that question. One of the biggest mistakes you can make if you're a scientist is to think you know the answer, or wish for a certain answer, before you actually have it.