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Steven Squyres [1957-0] American

Rank: 103
Scientist, Professor

Steven W. Squyres is the James A. Weeks Professor of Physical Sciences at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. His research area is in planetary sciences, with a focus on large solid bodies in the solar system such as the terrestrial planets and the moons of the Jovian planets.

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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.		101
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.		102
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.		103
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.		104
This whole mission has surpassed all of our expectations.		105
We didn't know if the rover could climb up or down the hills of the crater.		106
I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist.		107
That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.		108
The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for.		109
We need to drive like hell and get to the hills before the winter sets in.		110
We're stunned by the diversity of rocks. This stuff looks like it was put into a blender.		111
When we opened our eyes, we saw bedrock exposed in the walls of the crater.		112
You create a pile of dirt and then drive over it. We may have to learn to drive all over again.		113
Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.		114

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