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hi my name is John Werth and this is

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your building curiosity update I am the

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MSL at low electrical lead which means

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I'm the head Sparky Sparky means we do

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all the electrical integration we verify

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that the connectors are made incorrectly

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we do all that kind of stuff we're asked

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quite often why we have to hook up our

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wire to this ground lug and what this

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does is this leads off electrical charge

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on our body to the earth the rover has

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sensitive electronics in it so if we got

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close with a charge it might damage it

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this just ensures that we're down to a

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zero charge when we work on the rover so

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what we're doing today is we're getting

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ready for system tests we load some

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flight software which is the brain

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software in your brain trying to tell

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this thing that hey I'm gonna simulate

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going through launch cruise EDL and

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surface operations so what the guys are

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doing now is they're electrically

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connecting up each of the vehicles

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together so it thinks it's mechanically

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hooked together which tells the rover or

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makes the rover think that it's going to

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go through all its mission phases to

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ensure the flight software and the

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electronics will actually work when we

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get to Mars we're one year away from

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launch and so right now is a real busy

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time for us because we're trying to

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prepare the hardware to get going to

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Florida next year so right now everybody

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can actually see the light at the end of

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the tunnel because we're getting close

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to to launch so everybody's excited

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about making things happen right now