The international community has shown a real interest in being involved in our search, ... We appreciate their efforts and I think it shows that Mars is something that captivates everyone's imagination. |
The market [for farmland] was off but now it is on. You can throw all the old price comparisons out the window. |
The signal we are looking for is very, very weak, about 1 watt of power -- or like looking for a Christmas tree light on Mars, |
The tension on the team is up by several factors because of what happened. |
The trajectory didn't change. Our knowledge of it did. |
The way it works is that you can spend forever continuing to do things. It could be this thing went wrong plus that thing went wrong and another thing went wrong. But the likelihood is extremely remote and so we sort of draw the line. |
There are a lot of different paths that you can be on. We just have to wait to see which one. |
There is still a very real possibility that we may not hear anything during that whole period of time. |
This is where the idea of the movie originated, this is where the inspiration came from and this was the right place for the premiere. |
We are in the midst for proceeding with our planning for our next communications opportunity, which will begin tomorrow. |
We didn't get a signal at 8:30 p.m. We hoped we would. |
We're going to be able to learn much more from orbit. And I'm confident that in the end we'll pick out the best MSL landing site. If you only have one to send, you send it to the best place you can on Mars. |
We're in a state where we're not quite sure what's happened, |
We're sprouting new ideas as we go along, and the plan is more or less the same. |
We've looked at a lot of the technical issues and, hopefully, have our arms around a lot of them. |