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.

- Steve Squyres

I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist.

- Steve Squyres

Mars is telling us something. I'm not sure what it is because It's speaking martian. But it's telling us something

- Steve Squyres

Is there water still on Mars? I don't have a view on that because we don't have good data to answer that question. One of the biggest mistakes you ca…

- Steve Squyres

There's no way to actually turn the rover off.

- Steve Squyres

My style of leadership is to lead with the lightest touch that I possibly can.

- Steve Squyres

What we initially conceived as a fairly simple geologic experiment on Mars ultimately turned into humanity's first real overland expedition across an…

- Steve Squyres

We have concluded that the rocks here were once soaked in liquid water. It changed their texture, and it changed their chemistry. We've been able to …

- Steve Squyres

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.

- Steve Squyres