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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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