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In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams!

Carl Sagan

Thou art the Mars of malcontents.

William Shakespeare

It will rewrite the science textbooks on Mars.

Jim Graf

If we use the old antiquated systems we've got now, a Mars landing won't happen in my lifetime.

Gordon Cooper

We kind of describe it as living on Mars or something, another planet.

Todd Rutherford

This spacecraft is going to rewrite the science textbooks on Mars.

James Graf

The first step to Mars and beyond is getting back to the Moon.

Scott Horowitz

You need to conquer the moon before you can conquer Mars. And conquering it means more than stepping foot on it.

Bart Gordon

We had a 10-day layoff during Christmas. Mars was our first match after Christmas and we were a little flat. But that's no excuse.

Rick Chaussard

Finally, the Spirit has left the nest and is heading to Mars.

Orlando Figueroa

When its size, both actual and financial, is considered, it would be easy to believe Beagle 2 could not be aiming to accomplish much other than just raise a flag on Mars.

Colin Pillinger

What we're trying to do is immerse them in investigation very much like the lander is going to do. There's a lot of good analogies in what is happening in the frost tunnel and what we expect on Mars.

Doug Lombardi

We're very excited about the arrival of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in a couple of days, but my heart rate is going up for a different reason.

Fuk Li

Mars is the most habitable planet accessible to us. It's not extremely cold or hot. It's possible to imagine human colonies on Mars.

Alfred Mcewen

Human space flight beyond Mars is just not possible because of the increased exposure to galactic cosmic rays.

Frank Close

Establishing research stations on the moon will give us the experience and capabilities to extend to Mars and beyond.

Butler Hine

There is a reasonable hypothesis that there could have been an ancient civilization on Mars, ... At no point has NASA chosen to address this scientifically.

Richard Hoagland

We're right on the money right now, heading toward our encounter with Mars.

James Graf

We (Europe) aren't finished with the planets. We're planning to go back to Mars and we're planning also to go to Mercury, one of the most mysterious of planets very close to the Sun.

David Southwood

We hope to identify these mysterious compounds -- compare Venus to Earth and Mars to see how Venus went so badly wrong.

Larry Esposito

It hit at around 1 a.m., ... The mayor had been on TV telling everyone to get to higher ground, but I knew as much about getting around in New Orleans as I know about Mars.

Fred Powell

This spacecraft will return more data than all previous Mars missions combined.

James Graf

If humans go to Mars and have a similar positioning system there, knowing about ionosphere effects will be important.

Paul Withers

For his time, that was revolutionary. That was the best sketch ever done of Mars.

Greg Mehall

That's Mars. And over there, that is Venus. What a treat - two planets in the same sky.

George Stovall

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

Jose Saramago

In Le Mars, we collect 12-15 tons of recycling each month.

Mark Kunkel

My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.

Boris Johnson

Zero elevation (or 'sea level') on Mars is essentially the planet's average elevation.

Carol Hughes

We will be driving three meters forward on the surface of Mars and leaving our lander for good.

Kevin Burke

Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus.

Cybill Shepherd

So if life can exist under the ground on Earth, maybe it can exist under the ground on Mars, too.

Paul Davies

I suspected from the beginning that it was from Mars. The color was different and, above all, it wasn't magnetic.

Marc Hauser

We've got to go [back to the moon]. But we don't want to stay too long. ... The ultimate goal is Mars.

Buzz Aldrin

In my opinion, a nuclear rocket is an enabling technology for humans to go to Mars.

Steve Howe

There are many unanswered questions about Mars.

Richard Zurek

Our astronauts are safely back home, and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is safely on its way to Mars.

Orlando Figueroa

I don't think I'll be alive when we go to Mars, but that's how far out some of these things are.

Scott Aker

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

Herbert Prochnow

We're not low enough to touch Mars' atmosphere yet, but we'll get to that point next week.

Daniel Kubitschek

So much of this mall is a tribute to Mars. It's nice to have a monument to art and culture.

Louis Mahern

The Le Mars Public library is a regional resource.

Beth Hansen

Rock layers are the barcode of Mars history. Every time we encounter new layers, it's another piece of the puzzle.

John Grotzinger

[Ancient Mars] is equivalent to what we find in the Andes at 20,000 feet. It's totally equivalent to life on Mars 3.5 billion years [ago].

Nathalie Cabrol

I flat out see no evidence for any fossils in our data. If a trilobite, for example, evolved on Mars and we came across a rock with it, we could resolve it.

Jim Rice

It's a significant issue. It's an issue that would prohibit a manned mission to Mars.

Scott Aker

All the ingredients for life on Mars exist.

Colin Pillinger

That was very important to us. We wanted to have this in there as a symbol of bringing life to [Mars].

Joseph Palaia

We here on Earth have long held a fascination with the planet Mars.

Chikai Ohazama

I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.

Mignon McLaughlin

Getting to Mars, we feel, is the definitive step that will open up the solar system to humanity.

Joseph Palaia

The Mars Pathfinder (landing in 1997) caught everyone's attention. Hubble photos have just captured the public imagination and had maybe more magazine covers than even John Glenn.

Lori Garver

It seems like with every set of missions to Mars, instead of a gradual increase in our understanding we have a quantum leap. It's really a complicated place.

Augustin Chicarro

One of our objectives will be to put a chemical plant on Mars.

Rex Geveden

It's going to be difficult to get it into orbit. Mars is hard, Mars can be unpredictable, but we've got a good team here.

Doug Mccuistion

The first satellites go into orbit around Mars in 2008, as many as a half dozen of them.

Vint Cerf

We at Mars Express will forge ahead, taking on board all the lessons that we can from the polar lander failure.

Rudi Schmidt

If you really want to find a place to get life started, it's Mars, and if you want to get a place to get life to flourish, it's Earth.

Steven Benner

It's a nice way for the non-NASA people to sit at home and explore Mars.

Greg Mehall

The President forgot to mention the Moon, Mars, and the federal deficit - all of which are sky-high.

Brad Sherman

We created intense situations daily of two people in a landscape--on holiday, on Mars, on a dying planet. Sometimes we would be an elderly couple, sometimes kids at a picnic.

Meg Stuart

We got through that keyhole on Mars.

Rich Zurek

Surveying for the deepest insights into the mysterious evolution of Mars!

George Diller

John Carter of Mars.

Jon Favreau

At this point we have an idea that water is probably abundant on Mars in the form of ice. It's not a matter of finding water on Mars but learning its importance in climate change ... and clearly it has been important to shaping the landscape.

Alfred Mcewen

Mars doesn't treat you very well, for the most part. So this is a very challenging thing to do.

Doug Mccuistion

Water is, to the best of our knowledge, the key building block of life. If we can find it on Mars, it would help us glue together the geologic history of Mars and help us find out if there ever was life on Mars.

Eric Hayne

Life on Earth was not a cosmic fluke but part of a broad imperative. Mars is a lot like Earth. And billions of years ago it had some kind of atmosphere and huge quantities of flowing water.

Ed Weiler