Following up on clues provided by previous missions, the newest rover will seek answers to questions about climate, geology, human explorationand of course, whether or not the Red Planet could have once hosted life.
This era of exploration has left far more questions than answers, and as big data moves into the mainstream we need heroes like Smolan and Nate Silver, the statistician who put big data in the spotlight after correctly predicting the 2012 presidential election winner in all 50 states.