PART SCIENCE, PART ART:  ECU graduate drives Curiosity rover on Mars

(Sept. 5, 2012)   —   Scott Maxwell describes his job as being a chauffeur for science but he wants people to know that he does not use a joystick to drive the Mars Curiosity rover, NASA’s $2.6 billion, SUV-size nuclear-powered thinking machine that’s just beginning to explore the red planet.

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