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Roving Mars - Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet

English · Paperback / Softback

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Informationen zum Autor Steve Squyres is the scientist and principal investigator behind the Mars Exploration Rover mission, as well as a professor of astronomy at Cornell University. He has participated in a number of planetary spaceflight missions. He lives in Ithaca, New York. Klappentext It's the age-old question: Is there life on Mars? Steve Squyres, lead scientist of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission, sets out to answer that question and relates his findings in this riveting first-person narrative account, now in paperback.Steve Squyres is the face and voice of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission. Squyres dreamed up the mission in 1987, saw it through from conception in 1995 to a successful landing in 2004, and serves as the principal scientist of its $400 million payload. He has gained a rare inside look at what it took for Rovers Spirit and Opportunity to land on the red planet in January 2004--and knows firsthand their findings. Zusammenfassung Steve Squyres is the face and voice of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission. Squyres dreamed up the mission in 1987, saw it through from conception in 1995 to a successful landing in 2004, and serves as the principal scientist of its $400 million payload. He has gained a rare inside look at what it took for rovers Spirit and Opportunity to land on the red planet in January 2004--and knows firsthand their findings.

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Authors Steve Squyres, Steven Squyres, Squyres Steve
Publisher Hyperion
 
Languages English
Age Recommendation from age 13
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 08.06.2006
 
EAN 9781401308513
ISBN 978-1-4013-0851-3
No. of pages 432
Dimensions 152 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries
Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Astronomie und Raumfahrt: Sachbuch, SCIENCE / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, NATURE / Sky Observation, Popular astronomy and space

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