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hi I'm Savannah McCoy and I'm the rover

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verification and validation lead my job

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is to run system level tests on the

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rover structure to ensure it's capable

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of the requirements we have for Mars

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basically for the Mars program we build

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two Rovers in parallel

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once the flight rover and once the test

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Rover or DTM the main difference between

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the flight Rover and the DTM Rover is

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that the flight Rover actually goes to

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Mars just recently we ran a major test

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called the sky crane full motion drop

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test this test is to check out the EDL

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sequence or entry descent and landing

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sequence for curiosity for the first

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time we're going to be touching down on

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Mars with just the rover's wheels so

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this is the sequence leading up to that

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touchdown on Mars because this test is

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so important to the project almost all

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the team wanted to gather and watch the

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test we actually projected it into a

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multiple conference rooms around the lab

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so that everyone could have access to

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this very large milestone for our

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project fastest commencing in five five

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the reason we do all this testing is to

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prove that what we think is going to

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happen actually will happen when

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curiosity gets to Mars and that we

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really understand the dynamics of these

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vehicles during this test everything

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behaved as expected we were able to

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collect all of the data and

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instrumentation that we were hoping for

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so overall definitely a huge success