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.

We didn't know if the rover could climb up or down the hills of the crater.

Mars is telling us something. I'm not sure what it is because It's speaking martian. But it's telling us something

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

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.

The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for.

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