Vatican City, Aug 6, 2012 / 12:11 pm
Vatican Observatory director Fr. José Gabriel Funes thinks that "everybody" should be happy with the successful landing of the Mars science rover Curiosity.
Fr. Funes said he liked the rover's name because curiosity is "a driving force to do science, to do research."
"Human beings are basically curious," he told Vatican Radio Aug. 6. "We want to know how many things in the universe work, the logic, the 'logos' in the universe."
The priest explained that this drive for knowledge has a basis in the nature of creation.