For much of its history, it was a very forbidding place. |
I've always felt that we had six terrifying events in this mission; two launches, two landings and two egresses, ... And it wasn't until both [rovers] were in their native environments on Mars, for me, that I could really feel like I could breathe a sigh of relief. |
I've always felt that we had six terrifying events in this mission; two launches, two landings and two egresses. And it wasn't until both [rovers] were in their native environments on Mars, for me, that I could really feel like I could breathe a sigh of relief. |
It has everything a human field biologist has and then much, much more. |
It sounds like a crazy way to land on Mars, but it's actually tried and tested. |
It was evidence that water at one time had saturated the ground here. |
It'll be spectacular if we can get there. |
It's a cold, dry miserable place today. But we have got these tantalizing clues that, in the past, it used to be warmer and wetter, |
It's a cold, dry miserable place today. But we have got these tantalizing clues that, in the past, it used to be warmer and wetter. |
The Beagle 2 is excellent, ambitious. Ours are excellent, but we have different instrument packages and different aims. I don't see the material for the controversy, |
The Beagle 2 is excellent, ambitious. Ours are excellent, but we have different instrument packages and different aims. I don't see the material for the controversy. |
The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for. |
The search is difficult to achieve in a single mission. When we do a mission that is aimed at finding extant life, which probably requires liquid water at the surface, we will know exactly the place to go. |
There is certainly talk of getting another extension. |
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. |