A View of the Curiosity Rover from MAHLI | R. Aileen Yingst | TEDxDirigo

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. R. Aileen Yingst shares her experience as deputy principal investigator for the MArs Hand Lens Imager on the Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity. She even debunks the conspiracy theory about Curiosity's selfie - the first selfie on the planet Mars.
R. Aileen Yingst, a Senior Scientist for the Planetary Science Institute, is the Deputy
Principal Investigator for the MArs Hand Lens Imager on the Mars Science Laboratory
rover Curiosity. She also serves as a Participating Scientist on the Mars Exploration Rover and recently on the Dawn at Vesta mission. Prior to that she did postdoctoral work in multispectral analysis on the Mars Pathfinder and Mars Polar Lander missions. Dr. Yingst received her AB from Dartmouth College in Physics and Astronomy, and her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from Brown University.
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