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I think the Curiosity team would object to your answer. They've been working on the project for almost a decade, have spent thousands (millions?) of man-hours o
by rm999 14y ago
I think the Curiosity team would object to your answer. They've been working on the project for almost a decade, have spent thousands (millions?) of man-hours on it, and have written 500,000 lines of code to control it. The dollar amount that has gone into building it is greater than the value of many fortune 500 companies!
There are probably some awesome innovations that came out of such a large project, it's a great question to ask.
- tomjakubowski 14y agoThose 500k LOC are just for the EDL. Wonder what they wrote it in, presumably C? http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/news/press-releases/2012/july/0726-ss-msl.html http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/news/press-releases/2012/ju...
- iamdave 14y agoI've been hearing (sic: reading) a few folks suggesting actually python. This was in the ##curiosity IRC chat this morning during the landing