We’re developing a mode for keeping the arm out in front. We’ll essentially stow it now by putting the instrument pack up over the rover’s deck.

He is persisting in his fears. He was afraid of the police.

With the rovers we’ve actually been able to go look and pick the things we wanted to see whether it was up on top of hills or whether it was down inside the craters, you...

It went fine…we successfully put an instrument on the rock. The team did a great job but we’ve got more work to do.

Calibration Manager 4.2 was developed with feedback from our customers and taking into account new trends and regulatory changes and extends our best-in-class functionality with significant new productivity enhancements.

It’s good to be driving again. It was sort of a combination between a test drive and going to an interesting target.

We now have to make long-term plans for the vehicles because they may be around for quite a while. Either mission could end tomorrow with a random part failure. With the rovers already performing well...

So far it looks fine, but it will be awhile before we’re sure about that arm position. We’ll be doing further analysis to see if there are other poses that are better for the arm.

We anticipated the spacecraft’s star scanner would detect about 300 to 400 pulse counts of radiation, so imagine our surprise when the instruments showed Galileo had flown through 1,400 pulse counts,

Really, all we need to do is get to get to the beginning of McCool Hill, because we can climb the hill in that position.

This was a great dress rehearsal for the Io encounters. We’ve been wondering how the spacecraft might hold up when it gets close to Io. This latest brush with radiation makes us think that the...

As they age, we learn how to deal with the symptoms of old age whether it’s the equivalent of arthritis in our joints or senility in our memory.

Part of the issue is that he did not believe that this was Professor Martin anymore. He thinks that he was confronted with a robot or a person that was controlled by a computer chip...

Everybody knows that eventually we will die. They are metal. They are machines. So sooner or later the tool will break.

[For now, the rovers are in] amazingly good shape, … We’re going to work them hard to get as much benefit from them as we can, for as long as they are capable of producing...

I’m not sure I’d want that, they may be difficult to control.

The rovers are both in good shape. Normal science activities are increasing as we continue to get additional power out of the solar panels, primarily because the Martian day is getting longer.

It is an indication that more parts may be showing their age.

Then again, that’s why we’re exploring Jupiter and its moons — to discover these unusual phenomena.

You’ve heard the who, what, when, where and how; now we will work on the why.