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Roving Mars : spirit, opportunity, and the exploration of the red planet / Steve Squyres.
- Title
- Roving Mars : spirit, opportunity, and the exploration of the red planet / Steve Squyres.
- Author
- Squyres, Steven W.
- Publication
- New York : Hyperion ; London : Turnaround [distributor], c2005.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Updike, John
- Description
- x, 422 p., [32] p. of plates : col. ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- An inside look at NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission chronicles the evolution of the project, from its conception in 1995 to successful landing on the planet Mars in 2004, covering the politics, mistakes, and technological innovation involved.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Association copies (Provenance)
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Part One: Beginnings -- Moscow, 1987 -- Athena -- Apex -- The spacecraft graveyard -- Adler's inspiration -- The decision -- Part Two: Development -- "You're backed into a hyperdimensional corner" -- Shredding and squidding -- Atlo -- The cape -- The fuse -- Launch -- Part Three: Flight -- Final approach -- Gusev -- "We've got nothing" -- Eagle crater -- Endurance -- Pot of gold.
- ISBN
- 1401301495 (hbk.)
- OCLC
- 61156249
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library