Engineers at the Mars Science Laboratory rejoice after successfully landing a "car-sized" robot on our neighboring planet. For more background on the story, see Megan Garber's "Watch the NASA Control Room React to Curiosity's Martian Touchdown" as well as her guide to the entire Curiosity mission.
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Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg is a senior associate editor at The Atlantic. She curates the Video channel. More
Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg's work in media spans documentary television, advertising, and print. As a producer in the Viewer Created Content division of Al Gore's Current TV, she acquired and produced short documentaries by independent filmmakers around the world. Post-Current, she worked as a producer and strategist at Urgent Content, developing consumer-created and branded nonfiction campaigns for clients including Cisco, Ford, and GOOD Magazine. She studied filmmaking and digital media at Harvard University, where she was co-creator and editor in chief of H BOMB Magazine.
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