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Q 8:  What was your best moment during the mission?
 
A 8: 
Again, it was driving off the Lander and onto the surface. I remember that very clearly because there was a bit of uncertainty as to what happened. The images that came back didn't show the Rover in the field of view, and I had a moment of panic wondering what had happened to the Rover, wondering if it had driven off in the wrong direction or fliped over. But we were actually taking a series of images, and one of the first Rover movies we took showed the Rover driving down the ramp. And in the next frame I saw the Rover slowly coming down the ramp, and I was just ecstatic knowing we that we could now start to drive. Everyone burst into applause, and we were doing high fives and stuff.

The other highlights for me were being able to explore areas that were not visible from the Lander cameras. There was a time we went behind a hill and could explore what was behind it, and after a while, we got so that we were very familiar with the terrain, as if we were there ourselves. The mysteries that were left were the things that we couldn't see from the static viewpoint of the Lander, and that's where the Rover shined. We could go around hills, and eventually wanted to go off quite a ways from the Lander, but with our loss of communications, that didn't come to pass.

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