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Scott Maxwell
Former Mars Rover Driver, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Scott Maxwell now works at Google. Before that, he drove Mars rovers for nine years. He was the Mars Rover Driver Team Lead for the Mars Exploration Rover mission (Spirit and Opportunity) and a Mars Rover Driver on Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity). He published a diary he kept during the operations of Spirit and Opportunity, five years delayed, on his Mars and Me blog, which ended April 6, 2012.
Latest Articles
Using Cardboard to Tour Mars
Former Mars rover driver Scott Maxwell uses Google Cardboard to take a tour of the Red Planet.
Notes from a Red Planet: Ray Bradbury
Mars rover driver Scott Maxwell relates a story of how he handed Ray Bradbury an opportunity to drive on Mars.