Earth might be on a pause; however, life goes on
nevertheless in the distant skies and rocks. We've retreated back to our caves,
yet the fruits of our endeavors, in this case, NASA's Curiosity rover, still
continues to roam the far away. And of course, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
team hasn't abandoned its traveller amid the coronavirus pandemic: They've just
gone 'textbook NASA'.
The team is continuing to explore the red planet despite not
being able to go into their California office, instead, they've transitioned to
controlling Curiosity from their home offices after NASA instructed its
employees to work from home.
Moreover, they've successfully told Curiosity to drill into
the Martian soil in an area called Edinburg by working on ordinary laptops and
using simple red/blue 3D glasses.
Read more about this here.