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Many members of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Project, which operates the Curiosity rover on Mars, gathered for this 2016 team photo with a test rover in the "Mars Yard" at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.

October 19, 2017

Many members of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Project, which operates the Curiosity rover on Mars, gathered for this 2016 team photo with a test rover in the "Mars Yard" at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. More than 7,000 people in at least 33 U.S. states and 11 other countries have worked on this JPL-managed project since the start of development.

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