Louise Jandura had led the team of 50 engineers who designed Curiosity's sampling machinery, which includes a drill and a robot arm that delivers quantities of powdered rock to detectors inside the rover.
Earlier this year, in an article called "The Martian Chronicles," Bilger wrote a spellbinding account of the struggle to design the Curiosity rover.
You'll find ceramics, antiques, food, decoration, design and curiosities -- sometimes all under one roof.
And social networks, by design, sate hungry curiosity.
The $1.5 billion rover would largely reuse the same design as the Curiosity rover that landed on Mars in August.
That is because of their power to seduce the eye with interesting design and trigger curiosity about their origins, their nature, their creative process, their story.
It will be a tremendous achievement and testimony to the JPL scientists who designed and built Curiosity.
The block, with its discreet grey façade, is imposing but characterless, as if it was specifically designed to discourage curiosity.
Indeed, a Program woman will already have her hands full, since she will, in accordance with the chapter on guerrilla marketing, be carrying around a "conversation starter" — a "physical item that is designed to prompt curiosity and provoke interaction".
