Mars up Close : : Inside the Curiosity Mission
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Includes index.
The landing -- On Bradbury Rise -- Getting started -- The river -- Mars looks different -- In search of organics -- A habitable place? -- The anomaly -- Stories in stone -- Driving Curiosity -- The promised land -- Fourth-planet astrobiology -- Humans to Mars -- Reflections.
"National Geographic and science journalist Marc Kaufman combine inside stories, fascinating facts, and eye-popping pictures, some never before seen, of the red planet and NASA's groundbreaking Curiosity mission. Renowned author Kaufman spent two years embedded with the engineers and scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, cheering on the rover's spine-tingling landing, learning the backstory of anticipated findings, and witnessing the inescapable frustrations that come from operating a $2.5-billion multitasking robot on a planet 35 million miles from Earth. With images never published before, and computer-enhanced with colors that make you want to spend your next vacation on Mars, this is the only book that explains everything, detail by detail and moment by moment, about the most ambitious space expedition the human race has ever undertaken."--Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
Washington, DC : National Geographic, [2014]
Year Published: 2014
Description: 382 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781426212789
SUBJECTS
Curiosity (Spacecraft)
Mars (Planet) -- Exploration.