2012 August 27

Now that NASA's Curiosity Rover is off and moving along the Mars terrain, we'll talk to the Carnegie Mellon University grads and researchers involved with its development. Tony Stentz, director of the National Robotics Engineering Center at CMU developed the Curiosity's navigation software. Mark Maimone is a Navigation and Machine Vision researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Vandi Tompkins is a CMU graduate and driver for the Mars Exploration Rovers.

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