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The Mars Rover On-board Computer

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The Mars Rover On-board Computer
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How Curiosity's Onboard Computer works, and what you can learn from how it was designed
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Mars Rover Curiosity is one of the most sophisticated pieces of hardware ever launched into space. Because of the communication delay from Earth to Mars, it needs to accomplish most of its tasks completely autonomously: landing, navigation, exploration and singing birthday songs to itself. To do all this, it only has one central onboard computer. Let's look at that computer and the software it runs in detail.
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