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# Meet the Winners of the Exploring Hell Challenge

Join us on Thursday July 23rd at 10:00 am PDT

**The Challenge:** Imagine a world hot enough to turn lead into a puddle, where the atmospheric pressure can crush a nuclear-powered submarine. Now imagine sending a rover to explore that world.

Current, state-of-the-art, military-grade electronics fail at approximately 125°C, so mission scientists at JPL have taken their design cues from a different source: automatons and clockwork operations.

NASA launched the $30,000 Exploring Hell Challenge to propose an approach for an innovative obstacle avoidance sensor for its mechanical clockwork rover.

**Join HeroX, NASA and the winners of the Exploring Hell Challenge for a moderated panel discussion to learn about NASA’s crowdsourcing experience from start to finish.**

# About Us

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We connect everyday problem solvers to bring innovative thinking to reality.

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