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The Beautiful Video Game That Drives NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover

Curiosity has landed. It survived the seven minutes of terror and safely touched down on the surface of Mars. Now it needs a way to move around. Anyone who has ever played Lunar Lander and Moon Patrol already knows how they’re going to do this: video games.

7 April 2011

Science

This Is The Next Mars Rover

I want to ride the Mars Rover Curiosity. Sure, at a maximum of 90m per hour it would be a glacial ride, but the bloody thing is going to Mars. Where have I been lately? To the dog park two blocks from my house, that’s where. And there’s no dog poop in Mars.

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