wanted to explore what’s beyond the coast of Lebanon. Every human being wants to know what’s beyond that horizon, so you can expand your knowledge, and understanding of our role in the universe around us. About 13 billion years ago we believe it started with a Big Bang... Isn’t that amazing? How did we start from the Big Bang, and all those particles... and here we are having life and talking together... How did that happen? How did that evolve? How did the stars form? How did the planets form? How did life occur? How common is life? Is it common in the universe, or is it only unique to this planet? Whichever is the answer, it would be something completely amazing, and would change our thinking of the world around us. So that’s what we are doing in our exploration: we are trying to write the book of how we came about – how did we start from the Big Bang and how did we end here today... and then looking forward, what’s going to happen to our solar system, to our universe... "Do not go where the path may lead," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. "Go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail." Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars