SAT Transitions Question

Amruta Yelamanchili has worked at NASA's famed Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), one of the world's leading facilities for robotic space exploration. Yelamanchili worked as a data scientist on the JPL's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover team, which improved upon the 2011 Curiosity rover design by adding a coring drill to the robot that could collect rock samples for later analysis. Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?