NASA Brought Mars to Earth at This Year's CES

Agency used AR and VR to show what it's doing on the red planet

The Consumer Electronics Show is meant to display the future of humanity. There’s a certain optimism in looking at how technology advances society; how we can take an ordinary refrigerator and make it “smart.” But for a small band of operators, there’s a bigger mission: getting people to look to the heavens and get excited about the possibilities that technology can turn into a reality.

For a third year in a row, NASA commissioned an expedition to Las Vegas, where it tried to get attendees to step foot on a foreign planet. Using

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