I cannot tell you that we are going to reach those hills, |
I don't have a belief regarding that question. |
I have a huge amount of respect for what they've accomplished, |
I think we're going to make it. |
I'm leaving this one open for now. |
In terms of sheer scenic grandeur, it is the most spectacular image we've taken. It's like nothing else on Mars. |
It is a big step. We've really switched gears. |
It was a hot, violent place with volcanic explosions and impacts. Water was around, perhaps localized hot springs in some cases and trace amounts of water in other cases. |
It's astonishing to me how well it's going. They're tough machines built by a fantastic team. |
It's not like anything I've ever seen before, ... It's very weird looking stuff. |
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. |
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. |
Once we've finished the rest of the list, we'll start the descent. |
One mystery we've been dealing with for a long time is the origin of the little dark 'cobbles' that we occasionally see out on the plains. |
One mystery we’ve been dealing with for a long time is the origin of the little dark ‘cobbles’ that we occasionally see out on the plains, |