Space Rover

Author : Markus Motum
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2025-01-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781536242294

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Curiosity: The Story of a Mars Rover by Markus Motum Pdf

“A handsome and engaging children’s book. . . . This accessible look at interplanetary exploration will appeal to a broad range of young space enthusiasts.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) On August 6, 2012, the rover Curiosity touched down on the rocky surface of Mars—and now she’s ready to guide you through her journey. From idea to creation and beyond, this fact-filled, stylish book introduces readers to Curiosity and her mission: to discover more about the red planet and search for evidence of life. How did Curiosity get her name? What tools does she use to carry out her tasks? The popular NASA rover narrates how and why she traveled more than 350,000,000 miles to explore a planet no human has ever visited . . . and what she has been doing there for the past decade or so. Markus Motum brings Curiosity’s story to life in vivid color: the deep blues of space set off the warm, rusted hues of Mars’s dusty red surface, marking this lovable rover and her mission as something special—truly a world apart.

Author : Kristin L. Gray
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780525646488

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Rover Throws a Party by Kristin L. Gray Pdf

Inspired by NASA's Curiosity rover, this is the story of a lonely Mars rover who plans the best birthday party in the solar system. It's Rover's anniversary on Mars! Time to celebrate by throwing the best party this planet has ever seen. Rover hands out invitations all over town, but it seems like he's the only one around. Will anyone come to the party, or will Rover be all alone on his big day? In 2013, NASA programmed their Curiosity rover to hum "Happy Birthday to You" in honor of its first year on Mars. Inspired by this anecdote, this is the tale of a lonely rover and his party, accompanied by fascinating Mars rover facts that help explain the real science behind the story. This fun birthday tale provides an accessible, kid-friendly look at one of NASA's coolest programs.

Author : Roger Wiens
Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780465055982

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Red Rover by Roger Wiens Pdf

Covers the development and construction of the Mars rover Curiosity, the most sophisticated vehicle ever sent to the "Red Planet."

Author : Jessica Cohn
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781338825909

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Mars Rovers (A True Book: Space Exploration) by Jessica Cohn Pdf

From the first time a person looked up at the sky and wondered "What's out there?" humans have dreamed about exploring the cosmos. For so long, our neighbor in the solar system has been shrouded in mystery. Was there ever life on Mars? How can we enable astronauts to land on that planet-and return safely? Mars rovers, including the latest:Perseverance, may just provide the answers! They might even tell us if humans can live on Mars one day! Share in the joy of exploration and discovery with Mars Rovers. ABOUT THE SERIES: This book is part of A True Book series, Space Exploration, that includes the titles Human Missions to Outer Space, Mars Rovers, The International Space Station, and UFO's. The series features the latest NASA imagery and lively text to bring the wonder of space exploration directly to readers.

Author : Rob Manning,William L. Simon
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781588344748

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Mars Rover Curiosity by Rob Manning,William L. Simon Pdf

The firsthand account of the trials and tribulations of engineering one of the most complex pieces of space technology, the Mars Rover Curiosity, by its chief engineer Rob Manning In the course of our enduring quest for knowledge about ourselves and our universe, we haven't found answers to one of our most fundamental questions: Does life exist anywhere else in the universe? Ten years and billions of dollars in the making, the Mars Rover Curiosity is poised to answer this all-important question. In Mars Rover Curiosity: An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer, Rob Manning, the project's chief engineer, tells of bringing the groundbreaking spacecraft to life. Manning and his team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, tasked with designing a lander many times larger and more complex than any before, faced technical setbacks, fights over inadequate resources, and the challenges of leading an army of brilliant, passionate, and often frustrated experts. Manning's fascinating personal account--which includes information from his exclusive interviews with leading Curiosity scientists--is packed with tales of revolutionary feats of science, technology, and engineering. Readers experience firsthand the disappointment at encountering persistent technical problems, the agony of near defeat, the sense of victory at finding innovative solutions to these problems, the sheer terror of staking careers and reputations on a lander that couldn't be tested on Earth, and the rush of triumph at its successful touchdown on Mars on August 5, 2012. This is the story of persistence, dedication, and unrelenting curiosity.

Author : Stewart Lawrence Sinclair
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501399961

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Space Rover by Stewart Lawrence Sinclair Pdf

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. In 1971, the first lunar rover arrived on the moon. The design became an icon of American ingenuity and the adventurous spirit and vision many equated with the space race. Fifty years later, that vision feels like a nostalgic fantasy, but the lunar rover's legacy paved the way for Mars rovers like Sojourner, Curiosity, and Perseverance. Other rovers have made accessible the world's deepest caves and most remote tundra, extending our exploratory range without risking lives. Still others have been utilized for search and rescue missions or in clean up operations after disasters such as Chernobyl. For all these achievements, rovers embody not just our potential, but our limits. Examining rovers as they wander our terrestrial and celestial boundaries, we might better comprehend our place, and fate, in this universe. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Author : Emily Lakdawalla
Publisher : Springer
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319681467

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The Design and Engineering of Curiosity by Emily Lakdawalla Pdf

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.

Author : Janet Vertesi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226156019

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Seeing Like a Rover by Janet Vertesi Pdf

In the years since the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit and Opportunity first began transmitting images from the surface of Mars, we have become familiar with the harsh, rocky, rusty-red Martian landscape. But those images are much less straightforward than they may seem to a layperson: each one is the result of a complicated set of decisions and processes involving the large team behind the Rovers. With Seeing Like a Rover, Janet Vertesi takes us behind the scenes to reveal the work that goes into creating our knowledge of Mars. Every photograph that the Rovers take, she shows, must be processed, manipulated, and interpreted—and all that comes after team members negotiate with each other about what they should even be taking photographs of in the first place. Vertesi’s account of the inspiringly successful Rover project reveals science in action, a world where digital processing uncovers scientific truths, where images are used to craft consensus, and where team members develop an uncanny intimacy with the sensory apparatus of a robot that is millions of miles away. Ultimately, Vertesi shows, every image taken by the Mars Rovers is not merely a picture of Mars—it’s a portrait of the whole Rover team, as well.

Author : Danielle Smith-Llera
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780756556419

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Mars Rover by Danielle Smith-Llera Pdf

Weighing as much as a small car, a rover named Curiosity rolls quietly around Mars. Scientific instruments pack its body and cluster at the end of a mechanical arm. An arrangement of lenses and instruments tops its mast, like a face. To the many NASA workers involved in Curiosity s mission on Mars, the rover is not simply a robot, but an astronaut bravely exploring an alien place. Curiosity s instruments collect data and its cameras take images of the Mars landscape, including self-portraits, in vivid color and detail. As it roams and explores, Curiosity will help find the answers to such age-old questions as has there ever been life on Mars? Could there be one day?

Author : Richard Ho
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781250761903

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Red Rover by Richard Ho Pdf

Red Rover is a gorgeously illustrated tale that explores the vast, inhospitable landscape of Mars and the adventures of the little rover that calls the planet its home. Mars has a visitor. It likes to roam... observe... measure... and collect. It explores the red landscape— crossing plains, climbing hills, and tracing the bottoms of craters—in search of water and life. It is not the first to visit Mars. It will not be the last. But it might be... the most curious. Join Curiosity on its journey across the red planet in this innovative and dynamic nonfiction picture book by Richard Ho, illustrated by Sibert Honor winner Katherine Roy. This title has Common Core connections.

Author : Dave Lane
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781409217855

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Mars Exploration Rover "OPPORTUNITY", Vol 1 2003-2004 by Dave Lane Pdf

In 2003, NASA launched two Mars Exploration Rovers named "Spirit" & "Opportunity" on a voyage of discovery to the Red Planet. Both Rovers had a projected lifetime on Mars of just 90 days in which to collect scientific data and photographs. The Rovers excelled in every respect and worked on the Martian surface for many years. This book is the first volume in a series which records the exploration of the Rover "Opportunity". This volume records the period from the launch in 2003 to the time when Opportunity emerged from its travels in Endurance Crater at the end of 2004. These volumes are created from the sol by sol (day by day) logs provided to us all by the NASA web sites along with the photographs taken by the different cameras on Opportunity. All profits from this series of books will be donated to third world projects.

Author : Scott Maxwell
Publisher : Raintree
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781406268867

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Mars Rover Driver by Scott Maxwell Pdf

No one has yet visited Mars - at least, no humans have. Robot rovers have explored the surface of the Red Planet, and it's the job of people on Earth to control their every movement. Find out what's involved in being a rover driver, the tools and skills you need, and the difficulties of controlling something that's millions of miles away.

Author : Elizabeth Rusch
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0606398120

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The Mighty Mars Rovers by Elizabeth Rusch Pdf

On June 10, 2003, a little rover named Spirit blasted off on a rocket headed for Mars. On July 7, 2003, a twin rover named Opportunity soared through the solar system with the same mission: to find out if Mars ever had water that could have supported life.A thrilling addition to the acclaimed Scientists in the Field series, The Mighty Mars Rovers tells the greatest space robot adventure of all time through the eyes and heart of Steven Squyres, professor of astronomy at Cornell University and lead scientist on the mission. This suspenseful page-turner captures the hair-raising human emotions felt during the adventures with two tough rovers."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556034538348

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Mars Exploration Rover -- 2003 Project by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dave Lane
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781409218661

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Mars Exploration Rover OPPORTUNITY . Vol 2 2005-2006 by Dave Lane Pdf

In 2003, NASA launched two Mars Exploration Rovers named "Spirit" & "Opportunity" on a voyage of discovery to the Red Planet. Both Rovers had a projected lifetime on Mars of just 90 days in which to collect scientific data and photographs. The Rovers excelled in every respect and worked on the Martian surface for many years. This book is the second volume in a series which records the exploration of the Rover "Opportunity". This volume records the period from the start of 2005 when Opportunity left Endurance Crater to its arrival at Victoria Crater at the end of 2006. These volumes are created from the sol by sol (day by day) logs provided to us all by the NASA web sites along with the photographs taken by the different cameras on Opportunity. All profits from this series of books will be donated to third world projects.