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The Design and Engineering of Curiosity

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How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job

  • Explains how the rover has actually functioned on Mars, including the wear on its components
  • Collects a wide variety of otherwise inaccessible information on rover engineering, including corrections to previously published work
  • Provides a one-of-a-kind reference to a mission that is likely to last for another decade at least

This book describes the most complex machine ever sent to another planet: Curiosity. It is a one-ton robot with two brains, seventeen cameras, six wheels, nuclear power, and a laser beam on its head. No one human understands how all of its systems and instruments work. This essential reference to the Curiosity mission explains the engineering behind every system on the rover, from its rocket-powered jetpack to its radioisotope thermoelectric generator to its fiendishly complex sample handling system. Its lavishly illustrated text explains how all the instruments work -- its cameras, spectrometers, sample-cooking oven, and weather station -- and describes the instruments' abilities and limitations. It tells you how the systems have functioned on Mars, and how scientists and engineers have worked around problems developed on a faraway planet: holey wheels and broken focus lasers. And it explains the grueling mission operations schedule that keeps the rover working day in and day out.

The author Emily Lakdawalla is a planetary scientist who came to the discipline with a background as a boots-on-the-ground field geologist. Although not currently performing research, she has served as an interpreter of planetary science for the public through writing and editing the blog for The Planetary Society for nearly seven years.

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Nombre d` images et des photos
109
Nombre de pages
395
Auteur
Emily Lakdawalla
Date de parution
2018
Langue
Anglais
Édition
1ère édition
Niveau
Amateurs avertis
Série
Space Exploration
Springer The Design and Engineering of Curiosity

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