The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job (Springer Praxis Books),New

The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job (Springer Praxis Books),New

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This book describes the most complex machine ever sent to another planet: Curiosity. It is a oneton 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 rocketpowered 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, samplecooking 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.

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This product may contain chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm.

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