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,

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 not going to fill in the potholes. It's not going to put a roof over people's heads. What it does is it helps to address really fundamental questions of who we are, where we came from, by which I mean we can learn how life came about.

Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.

We didn't know if the rover could climb up or down the hills of the crater.

The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for.