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Purdue: Planetary Scientist Helps Equip Rover Perseverance With 4 of the 5 Human Senses
April 06, 2022
WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana, April 6 (TNSRes) -- Purdue University issued the following news release:

For two decades, Roger Wiens has built instruments to give humans eyes and a nose on Mars - and now he's helping add ears as well.

Wiens, a professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences in the College of Science at Purdue University, and an expert in Mars robotics technology, led the team that built SuperCam, a device on the Perseverance Mars rover that inclu . . .

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