Wearing 3D glasses and sitting at the flight operations console in Pasadena, California, Carnegie Mellon University graduate Vandi Verma ( pictured at right) studies the contours and rocks that litter a barren landscape no human has ever visited. With a series of keystrokes and careful planning, she puts a six-wheeled, 2,260-pound vehicle in motion, 130 million miles away from Mission Operations at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL). Verma is one of only a handful of people who drive Perseverance, the newest rover on Mars. And for the past few weeks, she has been a part of the team that is sending the Ingenuity helicopter on its historic flights.