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Applause for the Mars Exploration Rovers and the team

Applause for the Mars Exploration Rovers and the team
Applause for the Mars Exploration Rovers and the team The MER team, Opportunity, and Spirit got a round of applause at the end of mission event Feb. 13, 2019 at JPL. L-R: NASA Associate Administrator for Science Thomas Zurbuchen, Acting NASA Planetary Science Director Lori Glaze, MER Project Manager John Callas, JPL Director Michael Watkins, MER Principal Investigator Steve Squyres, Mars 2020 Project System Engineer Jennifer Trosper, MER Project Scientist Matt Golombek, MER Deputy Project Scientist Abigail Fraeman. MER was “a paradigm shift,” said Trosper, who was the Project System Engineer for the mission in the early days. “It was the first time we took everything with us.” NASA / JPL-Caltech