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Exploring our solar system

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How Do You Tell a Rover to Drive on Mars?

Every day there's a rover on Mars. How do you get it to drive? How do you tell it to do what it's going to do? Well first we have to decide scientifically. What's interesting? Where do we want to drive to? We have to pick a destination. And so usually that falls on the scientists to weigh in on that and say, we like this rock here or this outcrop here. The place that we are driving to is pretty close, only about two meters away. So that should be a pretty straightforward drive for us to plan.

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