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Woman Working on Mars: Jaime Catchen

July 14, 2014

Meet some of the women team members and hear about the exciting and challenging jobs they do in science and engineering while working with Mars rover Curiosity.

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NASA/JPL-Caltech

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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover documented itself in the context of its work site, an area called "Rocknest Wind Drift," on the 84th Martian day, or sol, of its mission (Oct. 31, 2012).
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Fresh Crater Revealing Buried Ice
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Lobate Flow Features in the Northwest Hellas Rim (3-D)
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