The NASA Curiosity team is working from home, but their most prominent team member is on a distant planet, millions of miles away. (via CNBCMakeIt)
over the past month, and likely into the foreseeable future.
for all non-essential workers to help stop the spread of coronavirus in March, the space agency said in a blog post this week.That means the Curiosity team has been forced to adapt to an extraordinary situation in which they have to manage the work of hundreds of people who maintain and control the rover from millions of miles away.
Sometimes, the team needs more than 20 people at a time working to program a sequence of actions before sending those instructions to the rover before it can complete a task like drilling into a rock for a sample of Martian sandstone to analyze.
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