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hi i'm lucia abramian 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 was 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

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the team that i was on my first year was

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working on writing operations planning

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software for the mars expiration rovers

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so as a high school student i actually

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got a chance to write code

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help with the testing and help

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scientists with the preparation for

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so i was getting so much out of the

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internships they encourage 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 a final report and documenting

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your progress

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and five years later these scientists

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are still excited about being a part of

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athlete is the all-terrain hex slimmed

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extraterrestrial explorer

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athlete has a six-sided frame which

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means it has six different faces each

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face has stereo pair of cameras which

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act like eyes human eyes and can return

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images

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that can be in 3d

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the rover has six legs and each leg has

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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

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over large rocks or in terrain that we

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couldn't necessarily drive over

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now i'm looking at ways to allow

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operators to enter an immersive

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environment where they can

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see and almost feel what athlete is

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feeling when they're in this environment

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and this involves a lot of research and

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a lot of different fields of computer

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science

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when i tell my friends about what i do

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they are amazed they can't believe it