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 "operator": "NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory",
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  "reported": "2026-01-30",
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 "software": "Vision-language models (Anthropic's Claude)",
 "did": "Planned the rover's route on Earth; the commands were checked and sent to Mars, and the rover drove them.",
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   "text": "verifying over 500,000 telemetry variables before sending commands to Mars",
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 "notes": "Outside the register and shown beside it, because it marks the boundary: AI used for a space mission, not AI that ran in space. It carries no mark.",
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}