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The Mars Rover On-board Computer

Mars Rover Curiosity is one of the most sophisticated pieces of hardware ever launched into space. Because of the communication delay from Earth to Mars, it needs to accomplish most of its tasks completely autonomously: landing, navigation, exploration and singing birthday songs to itself. To do all this, it only has one central onboard computer. Let's look at that computer and the software it runs in detail.

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  • Originally Aired December 29, 2018
  • Runtime 60 minutes
  • Production Code 9783
  • Created December 27, 2018 by
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  • Modified December 27, 2018 by
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Name Type Role
breakthesystem Director