The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for.
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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.
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It's not going to fill in the potholes. It's not going to put a roof over people's heads. What it does is it helps to address really fundamental questions of who we are, where we came from, by which I mean we can learn how life came about.
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When we opened our eyes, we saw bedrock exposed in the walls of the crater.
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You create a pile of dirt and then drive over it. We may have to learn to drive all over again.
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This whole mission has surpassed all of our expectations.
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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.
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Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.
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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.
