 {"id":482,"date":"2012-09-09T23:47:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T23:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2012\/09\/09\/mark-rober-curiositys-landing-from-the-perspective-of-the-3000-people-who-built-it\/"},"modified":"2013-06-30T19:48:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T19:48:08","slug":"mark-rober-curiositys-landing-from-the-perspective-of-the-3000-people-who-built-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2012\/09\/09\/mark-rober-curiositys-landing-from-the-perspective-of-the-3000-people-who-built-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Rober, &quot;Curiosity&#8217;s Landing From the Perspective of the 3,000 People Who Built It&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markrober\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Rober<\/a> is an engineer at NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. In that role, Rober spent seven years working on the Curiosity project as NASA made its plans to explore Mars. &#8220;That&#8217;s nearly my entire professional career,&#8221; Rober notes, &#8220;and a quarter of my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rober has produced a video of the landing &#8212; a video told from his personal perspective, and from the perspective of the more than 3,000 people who, in some way, contributed to Curiosity&#8217;s success. &#8220;Appropriately,&#8221; Rober says, &#8220;there&#8217;s been a lot of focus on Curiosity, the rover. But what I think makes JPL really great aren&#8217;t its robots. It&#8217;s the people who build them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He made the video, which focuses on Curiosity&#8217;s climactic touchdown, to celebrate those people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Rober is an engineer at NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. In that role, Rober spent seven years working on the Curiosity project as NASA made its plans to explore Mars. &#8220;That&#8217;s nearly my entire professional career,&#8221; Rober notes, &#8220;and a quarter of my life.&#8221; Rober has produced a video of the landing &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentaries","category-inspirational-vids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1240,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/1240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}