Cartesian Theatre is a Vancouver, British Columbia, based software company. The studio has developed a range of cutting edge software technologies over the years. Expertise has been gained over more than a decade and applied in a wide range of diverse software problem domains. These have included aerospace, artificial intelligence, gaming, bio-technology, ultra high definition audio, cryptography, distributed systems, simulation, space science, and digital signal processing. Among the studio's accomplishments was the technology to recover substantial portions of the first successful mission to the surface of Mars.