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hi I'm Lucy O'Brien I'm a software

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engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion

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Laboratory I started working at JPL in

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2003 and this was around the time where

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the Mars exploration Rovers were

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launching this is in summer and the

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atmosphere at JPL was amazing for a high

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school intern who's 16 years old this

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was the most exciting place to be the

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team that was on my first year was

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working on writing operations planning

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software for the Mars exploration Rovers

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so as a high school student I actually

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got a chance to write code help with the

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testing and help scientists with the

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so I was getting so much out of the

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internships they encouraged what a

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scientist has to go through they tell

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you that you have to write a proposal

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you have to go through the same steps of

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writing the final report and documenting

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your progress and five years later these

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scientists are still excited about being

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athlete is the all-terrain heck slimmed

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extraterrestrial Explorer athlete has a

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six sided frame which means it has six

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different faces each face has stereo

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pair of cameras which act like eyes

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human eyes and can return images that

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can be in 3d the rover has six legs and

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special thing about this is that not

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only can we drive on wheels but we can

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use the legs to walk around over large

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rocks or in terrain that we couldn't

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necessarily drive over now I'm looking

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at ways to allow operators to enter an

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immersive environment where they can see

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and almost feel what athlete is feeling

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when they're in this environment and

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this involves a lot of research and a

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lot of different fields of computer

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science when I tell my friends about

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what I do they are amazed they can't