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Red Rover: Inside the Story of Robotic Space Exploration, from Genesis to the Curiosity Rover
Red Rover Inside the Story of Robotic Space Exploration from Genesis to the Curiosity Rover Author:Roger Wiens In its eerie likeness to Earth, Mars has long captured our imaginations—both as a destination for humankind and a possible home to extraterrestrial life. This fall, the Curiosity rover will land on Mars with the mission to determine whether the Red Planet has ever been capable of supporting living beings. In Red Rover, geochemist and planetary s... more »cientist Roger Wiens, who built the ChemCam instrument on the rover—the main tool for measuring Mars?s past habitability—will tell the unlikely story of how this sophisticated robotic rover came to be. Facing tight deadlines, slim budgets, and the ever-present threat of shutdown, Wiens? team managed overcome seemingly intractable engineering and political problems to get their robot successfully off the ground.
An inspiring account of the real-life challenges of space exploration, Red Rover vividly narrates the race to answer the enduring question: could there be life on Mars?« less