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Martian Robots, Taking Orders From a Manhattan Walk-Up

New York Times

By Kenneth Chang

These days, when one of NASA's rovers drills a hole in a rock on Mars, the commands come from Lower Manhattan, from a second-floor office on Elizabeth Street, surrounded by dusted-off tenements.

"It is almost surreal. "You walk down the street and there are shoe stores, bakeries and here we're controlling some robotic mechanism on Mars."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/science/07mars.html?th

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