Perseverance: Meet the driver who navigates the Mars rover

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It’s 1:30 a.m. in Pasadena, California but on Mars it is....

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6:00 pm

Front

What type of glasses does Vandi Verma wear when she gets to work?

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3D glasses

Front

Verma is the _________ for Robotic Operations for NASA’s Perseverance rover

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chief engineer

Front

Verma operates on Mars from the perspective of the

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rover

Front

Verma joined the rover team in 2008, working on the Spirit, Opportunity, and

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Curiosity rovers

Front

Which of these previous rovers are still roaming Mars today? Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity, all of them

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Curiosity

Front

Is Perseverance able to drive further during a given period of time?

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True

Front

All in all, there have been about ___ other rover drivers.

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12

Front

What is the Deep Space Network, NASA’s interplanetary communications network?

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network is made up of three deep-space communications facilities

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Because of the distance between Earth and Mars, it takes about ____ minutes for the commands to reach the rover.

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20