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“For a planet that’s roughly a third the size of Earth, Martian geology is extreme. Olympus Mons makes Mount Everest look like a sand…

— Peter Cawdron

I have never been to Mars. What will we discover when we get there? A red landscape, quiet horizon, frozen glaciers? Probably all is…

— Ma Yansong

There are celestial sights more dazzling, spectacles that inspire more awe, but to the thoughtful observer who is privileged to see them well, there…

— Percival Lowell

“For all the tantalizing and provocative character of the Viking results, I know a hundred places on Mars which are far more interesting than…

— Carl Sagan

The single best thing about Mars is the reduced gravity. It's 38 percent of Earth's gravity - about one third. Almost never have you…

— Robert J. Sawyer

It's great that people are interested in Mars.

— Anonymous

“The tallest mountain in the solar system is on Mars”

— Adam Anderson

There is every reason to think that in the coming years Mars and its mysteries will become increasingly familiar to the inhabitants of the…

— Carl Sagan

Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of…

— Barbara Block

“The beauty of Mars exists in the human mind. without the human presence it is just a concatenation of atoms, no different than any…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

The planet Mars -- crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms -- has long formed a celestial tabula rasa…

— David Grinspoon

Mars is essentially in the same orbit. Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures…

— Dan Quayle