— “Petitioner immediately recognized that bowl-shaped structure,
hereafter referred to as Sol 3540, as resembling a mushroom-like
fungus, a composite organism consisting of colonies of lichen and
cyanobacteria, and which on Earth is known as Apothecium.”
- Rhawn Joseph, Ph.D., pro se, filed lawsuit against NASA on Jan. 27, 2014
— “Mars keeps throwing new stuff at us! ...the rock is white around the outside,
in the middle there's a low spot that is dark red. It looks like a jelly donut
and it just plain appeared and we haven't driven over that spot.”
- Steve Squyres, Ph.D., Cornell Univ., Mars Opportunity rover
scientist speaking Jan. 16th, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab