Who is behind the Martian Rovers?

[tomwalz]

There was an article in the Sunday paper about how incredibly well they are performing. Made me curious about who deserves credit, both organizations and individual people.

Thanks,
Tom


Thomas J. Walz
Carbide Processors, Inc.

http://www.carbideprocessors.com

 

[CoryPad]

Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology:

http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/people/

Regards,

Cory

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[tomwalz]

Sorry,

Knew about JPL. Lookign for individuals, components and component suppliers that have made it such a success.

What happened and who made it happened.

Hoping somebody here would have been involved.

Tom

Thomas J. Walz
Carbide Processors, Inc.

http://www.carbideprocessors.com

 

[CoryPad]

The link I provided certainly will help with individuals and some suppliers. I think it is very likely you could contact a few of the individuals and learn a great deal about the components and suppliers.

Regards,

Cory

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[kenvlach]

The Mars rovers project team leaders:

Discussing the progress of the Mars rovers are, from left, Mark Adler, Larry Soderblom and Scott McLennan. Spirit "has gotten a little hard of hearing, due to temperature, and has arthritis in one of her joints," Adler said.
(AP) June 15, 2004.

Adam Steltzner recaps the Spirit rover's landing on Mars.
(Anacleto Rapping / LAT) April 11, 2004.

Don't forget the overhead surveyors of Mars.
'The Lewis and Clark of Mars.' Two scientists have spent the last decade exploring the planet a few feet at a time, poring over 250,000 pictures from the Global Surveyor.

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-mars29jun29,1,1755743.story

Mike Malin, left, and Ken Edgett have spent a decade scanning the images of Mars sent by NASA’s Global Surveyor craft, seeking — and finding — possible signs of life.
(Mark Boster / LAT) June 1, 2007

 

[unclesyd]

Looks like the little buggers are in bit of trouble.

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/20jul_duststorm.htm?list82264