A Fantastical Look at Fixing the Curiosity Rover

After spending roughly $2.5 billion to build the Curiosity rover and deliver it to Mars, there's no way NASA would let something as trivial as a mechanical breakdown or software glitch stop its journey—not when we could just send up a repair-bot to fix it. Nicolas Hommel and Matthieu Findinier produced this bubbly animated short positing what it would take to get the mechanical Magellan of Mars back on its feet, er wheels. More »

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