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This quote is just one of 7 total Steve Squyres quotes in our collection. Steve Squyres is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.
What field geologists typically do - and Spirit is a robotic field geologist - is you climb to the top of the nearest hill and take a look around so you get the lay of the land and figure out where you want to go.
That very rugged stuff. There is a guy on our team who actually calls this the geologic promised land. I don't know if it's going to turn out to be that good or not and I don't know if we'll ever get there, but it certainly looks interesting.
What we have found once we've gotten up into the summit region...the driving has gotten very, very good. The ground is hard here. There is not a lot of fine-grain stuff around. What there is piled up in drifts. This is because the summit region is exposed to the wind; it's very windy. In some parts of the summit region, we barely leave tracks.
This quote is just one of 7 total Steve Squyres quotes in our collection. Steve Squyres is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.