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This is the official progress blog for the Mars Society Northern California chapter and NASA Ames Research Center Science Rover project. This project was initiated by NASA and the Mars Society and subsequently funded by Google Inc. The main goal of this project is to deliver two robotic vehicles, one for science research in Mars analog environments, namely the Mars Desert Research Station operated in the Utah desert by the Mars Society and another one for Bay Area outreach through NASA's Spaceward Bound program in an attempt to foster a new generation of space explorers, scientists and engineers.