WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug. 24 (UPI) -- A 19-year-old Purdue University sophomore from Los Angeles played a big role in enabling the first steps of NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars, the school said.
Riley Avron, working as an intern with NASA engineers training this summer to drive the Mars rover Curiosity, noted the slow progress caused by their having to spend several minutes entering arcane code into their computers before every maneuver.