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Also, we're doing what any field geologist would do in an area like this: climbing to a good vantage point for plotting a route. - Steve Squyres Quotes

Also, we're doing what any field geologist would do in an area like this: climbing to a good vantage point for plotting a route.

Our requirement for how far we should be able to traverse over the course of the mission, was 600 meters. These hills are five times that far away. OK, so don't sit here and think, 'Oh, we're going to go to the hills.' We're going to go 'toward' the hills. - Steve Squyres Quotes

Our requirement for how far we should be able to traverse over the course of the mission, was 600 meters. These hills are five times that far away. OK, so don't sit here and think, 'Oh, we're going to go to the hills.' We're going to go 'toward' the hills.

There are cliffs the rover could fall over and die if we aren't careful. We are gong to proceed carefully and methodically. - Steve Squyres Quotes

There are cliffs the rover could fall over and die if we aren't careful. We are gong to proceed carefully and methodically.

We still want to get to the summit of Husband Hill and then head down into the 'Inner Basin' on the other side. But now we have more flexibility in how we carry out the plan. Before, it was climb or die. - Steve Squyres Quotes

We still want to get to the summit of Husband Hill and then head down into the 'Inner Basin' on the other side. But now we have more flexibility in how we carry out the plan. Before, it was climb or die.

[Before launch] it just seemed impossibly far away, it seemed unreachable. Tonight, I go out knowing our rovers have been there a whole Martian year...it's a much more familiar planet. We know the place. - Steve Squyres Quotes

[Before launch] it just seemed impossibly far away, it seemed unreachable. Tonight, I go out knowing our rovers have been there a whole Martian year...it's a much more familiar planet. We know the place.

Nobody has the display capability in their homes you'd need to really see these images in all their grandeur. One panorama we created was 4,000 pixels high and 24,000 pixels around, and your laptop just can't display that. But on an IMAX screen five stories tall, you're standing on the edge of the crater. You're there. - Steve Squyres Quotes

Nobody has the display capability in their homes you'd need to really see these images in all their grandeur. One panorama we created was 4,000 pixels high and 24,000 pixels around, and your laptop just can't display that. But on an IMAX screen five stories tall, you're standing on the edge of the crater. You're there.

We have to assume the worst...that the solar panels are going to stay dirty and just get dirtier. - Steve Squyres Quotes

We have to assume the worst...that the solar panels are going to stay dirty and just get dirtier.

It's very similar in composition, with very similar textures when you look at it with a microscope, but it's dipping in all different directions. What it says is that the geology around here is pretty complicated. - Steve Squyres Quotes

It's very similar in composition, with very similar textures when you look at it with a microscope, but it's dipping in all different directions. What it says is that the geology around here is pretty complicated.

That's no Mount Everest, but for a little rover this is a heck of a climb. - Steve Squyres Quotes

That's no Mount Everest, but for a little rover this is a heck of a climb.

That's no Mt. Everest, but it's a heck of a climb for our little rover, ... When we first touched down at Gusev Crater on Jan. 4, 2004, the Columbia Hills looked impossibly far away. - Steve Squyres Quotes

That's no Mt. Everest, but it's a heck of a climb for our little rover, ... When we first touched down at Gusev Crater on Jan. 4, 2004, the Columbia Hills looked impossibly far away.

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