Steven Squyres
Steven Squyres
Steven W. Squyresis 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. Squyres is principal investigator of the Mars Exploration Rover Mission. He is the recipient of the 2004 Carl Sagan Memorial Award and the 2009 Carl Sagan Medal for Excellence in Communication in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
CountryUnited States of America
The search is difficult to achieve in a single mission. When we do a mission that is aimed at finding extant life, which probably requires liquid water at the surface, we will know exactly the place to go.
It has everything a human field biologist has and then much, much more.
You create a pile of dirt and then drive over it. We may have to learn to drive all over again.
The Beagle 2 is excellent, ambitious. Ours are excellent, but we have different instrument packages and different aims. I don't see the material for the controversy.
It's a cold, dry miserable place today. But we have got these tantalizing clues that, in the past, it used to be warmer and wetter.
This whole mission has surpassed all of our expectations.
There is certainly talk of getting another extension.