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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Results from the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity Mission written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Raymond E. Arvidson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Results from the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit and Opportunity Missions written by Raymond E. Arvidson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 250 pages
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Download or read book Results from the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit Mission written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Janet Vertesi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022615601X
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Seeing Like a Rover written by Janet Vertesi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Robert Godwin
Publisher : Burlington, Ont. : Apogee Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mars written by Robert Godwin and published by Burlington, Ont. : Apogee Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1877 the famed Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli used his brand-new 8.6 inch telescope to study the planets. To his great surprise he suspected that he saw symmetry on Mars. In the years that followed one astronomer after another looked at the red planet and gradually a mythology was formed -- a mythology of alien intellect. By the 1890's the martial influence had spilled over into all walks of life and sparked philosophical debates and wondrous fictions. Scientists, fantasists and people of all creeds looked up and wondered -- is there life out there? Now, more than a century later, nations around the world are bombarding Mars with an unprecedented fleet of exploratory vehicles. Their journey taking less time than it took Amundsen and Shackleton to reach the poles of Earth, these small but hardy robotic emissaries are thrusting their way through the depths of interplanetary space to take up residence in the barren Martian deserts. Their goal is to answer one of the oldest questions in mankind's history. Is there life out there? In this sequel to the best-selling first volume, the reader is brought up to date with the most recent results from our nearest neighbour. Filled with a wealth of facts about the latest fleet of Martian explorers as well as a look at what may be coming next in mankind's most ambitious quest for knowledge. Includes DVD-V / DVD-ROM featuring: Exclusive interviews with Mars Rover Mission Scientist Steve Squyres, Senior Flight Engineer Rob Manning, Mission Manager Jim Eriksen, the complete Cornell animation of the Rovers created by Maas Digital, a NASA animation of a proposed Manned Mars mission, the exciting mission control broadcast of the landing of Opportunity in Meridiani Planum and as an added extra special bonus, extremely rare video of Dr Wernher von Braun filmed in 1976 at the occasion of his last public speech about Mars exploration.
Author : Steven Squyres
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 140138191X
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Roving Mars written by Steven Squyres and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2005-08-03 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Science Results from the Mars Exploration Rover Mission written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NASA launched two Mars Exploration Rovers, on June 10 and July 7, 2003, primarily to probe the history of water on the red planet. After landing on Mars in January 2004, the robots began to explore the planet. One of the most important scientific goals of the mission was to find and identify a variety of rocks and soils that provide evidence of the past presence of water on the planet. To obtain this information, Squyres is studying the data obtained on Mars by several sophisticated scientific instruments. In his talk, he will discuss his conclusions about water on Mars and other observations about the nature of the planet.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 030909724X
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-04-22 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent spacecraft and robotic probes to Mars have yielded data that are changing our understanding significantly about the possibility of existing or past life on that planet. Coupled with advances in biology and life-detection techniques, these developments place increasing importance on the need to protect Mars from contamination by Earth-borne organisms. To help with this effort, NASA requested that the NRC examine existing planetary protection measures for Mars and recommend changes and further research to improve such measures. This report discusses policies, requirements, and techniques to protect Mars from organisms originating on Earth that could interfere with scientific investigations. It provides recommendations on cleanliness and biological burden levels of Mars-bound spacecraft, methods to reach those levels, and research to reduce uncertainties in preventing forward contamination of Mars.
Author : Giuseppe Pezzella
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 1839623624
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Mars Exploration written by Giuseppe Pezzella and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-09-09 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 50 years after the Mariner 4 flyby on 15 July 1965, Mars still represents the next frontier of space explorations. Of particular focus nowadays is crewed missions to the red planet. Over three sections, this book explores missions to Mars, in situ operations, and human-rated missions. Chapters address elements of design and possible psychological effects related to human-rated missions. The information contained herein will allow for the development of safe and efficient exploration missions to Mars.
Author : Dave Lane
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 140921785X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Mars Exploration Rover "OPPORTUNITY", Vol 1 2003-2004 written by Dave Lane and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Marcelo H. Ang
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540288169
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (881 download)
Download or read book Experimental Robotics IX written by Marcelo H. Ang and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-02-09 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER) is a series of bi-annual meetings which are organized in a rotating fashion around North America, Europe and Asia/Oceania. The goal of ISER is to provide a forum for research in robotics that focuses on novelty of theoretical contributions validated by experimental results. The meetings are conceived to bring together, in a small group setting, researchers from around the world who are in the forefront of experimental robotics research. This unique reference presents the latest advances across the various fields of robotics, with ideas that are not only conceived conceptually but also verified experimentally. It collects contributions on the current developments and new directions in the field of experimental robotics, which are based on the papers presented at the Ninth ISER held in Singapore.
Author : Roger Wiens
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465051995
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Red Rover written by Roger Wiens and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries humankind has fantasized about life on Mars, whether it’s intelligent Martian life invading our planet (immortalized in H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds) or humanity colonizing Mars (the late Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles). The Red Planet’s proximity and likeness to Earth make it a magnet for our collective imagination. Yet the question of whether life exists on Mars—or has ever existed there—remains an open one. Science has not caught up to science fiction—at least not yet. This summer we will be one step closer to finding the answer. On August 5th, Curiosity—a one-ton, Mini Cooper-sized nuclear-powered rover—is scheduled to land on Mars, with the primary mission of determining whether the red planet has ever been physically capable of supporting life. In Getting to Mars, Roger Wiens, the principal investigator for the ChemCam instrument on the rover—the main tool for measuring Mars’s past habitability—will tell the unlikely story of the development of this payload and rover now blasting towards a planet 354 million miles from Earth. ChemCam (short for Chemistry and Camera) is an instrument onboard the Curiosity designed to vaporize and measure the chemical makeup of Martian rocks. Different elements give off uniquely colored light when zapped with a laser; the light is then read by the instrument’s spectrometer and identified. The idea is to use ChemCam to detect life-supporting elements such as carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen to evaluate whether conditions on Mars have ever been favorable for microbial life. This is not only an inside story about sending fantastic lasers to Mars, however. It’s the story of a new era in space exploration. Starting with NASA’s introduction of the Discovery Program in 1992, smaller, scrappier, more nimble missions won out as behemoth manned projects went extinct. This strategic shift presented huge opportunities—but also presented huge risks for shutdown and failure. And as Wiens recounts, his project came close to being closed down on numerous occasions. Getting to Mars is the inspiring account of how Wiens and his team overcame incredible challenges—logistical, financial, and political—to successfully launch a rover in an effort to answer the eternal question: is there life on Mars?
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Publisher : Jeffrey Frank Jones
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Mars As Art Series: Stories And Images From The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) And The Opportunity Rover written by and published by Jeffrey Frank Jones. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirit (MER-A) – USA Mars Rover – 185 kg - (June 10, 2003) As part of the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Mission, "Spirit", also known as MER-A, was launched on June 10, 2003 and successfully arrived on Mars on January 3, 2004. The last communication with Spirit occurred on March 22, 2010. JPL ended attempts to re-establish contact on May 25, 2011. The rover likely lost power due to excessively cold internal temperatures. Opportunity (MER-B) – USA Mars Rover – 185 kg - (July 7, 2003) "Opportunity", also known as MER-B, was launched on July 7, 2003 and successfully arrived on Mars on January 24, 2004. Click here for more information on the MER mission. Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter – USA Mars Orbiter - 1,031 kg - (August 12, 2005) The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) was launched on August 12, 2005 for a seven month voyage to Mars. MRO reached Mars in March 10, 2006 and began its scientific mission in November 2006. Click here for more information. Mars Science Laboratory – USA Mars Rover – 750 kg - (November 26, 2011) The Mars Science Laboratory was launched on November 26, 2011. With its rover named Curiosity, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission is designed to assess whether Mars ever had an environment able to support small life forms called microbes. Curiosity landed successfully in Gale Crater at 1:31 am EDT on August 6, 2012. Click here for more information from the NASA JPL site.
Author : Katie L. Carroll
Publisher : Shimmer Publications
ISBN 13 : 1958575003
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (585 download)
Download or read book Selfies From Mars written by Katie L. Carroll and published by Shimmer Publications. This book was released on 2023-02-13 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From evidence of water to stunning images, Mars rover Opportunity allowed humans to experience the Red Planet as never before. Ride along on the 15-year mission Selfies From Mars: The True Story of Opportunity is a heartfelt narrative of the Mars Exploration Rover mission that explores the scientific findings of Opportunity and Spirit and the team of scientists and engineers behind the robot rovers. Perfect for STEM education topics, the pages features full-color photographs from the NASA mission and text features with bonus factual information, including Fact Files presented by the adorable cartoon rover Oppy.
Author : Source Wikipedia
Publisher : University-Press.org
ISBN 13 : 9781230539041
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Mars Exploration Rover written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: Spirit rover, Opportunity rover, Mars Science Laboratory, Scientific information from the Mars Exploration Rover mission, Opportunity rover timeline for 2005 April, Spirit rover timeline for 2005 March, Astrobiology Field Laboratory, Spirit rover timeline for 2005 April, Rocker-bogie, Mini-TES, Cleaning event, Rock Abrasion Tool, Peter Theisinger, Roving Mars, MIMOS II, Hazcam, Maestro, List of surface features of Mars seen by the Opportunity rover, List of surface features of Mars seen by the Spirit rover, Oilean Ruaidh.
Download or read book The Mission of the Mars Exploration Rovers written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mars Exploration Rover mission was expected to last 3 months, but has continued for more than 4 years. The major science results from both rovers will be summarized.
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309479363
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Visions into Voyages for Planetary Science in the Decade 2013-2022 written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spring 2011 the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine produced a report outlining the next decade in planetary sciences. That report, titled Vision and Voyages for Planetary Science in the Decade 2013-2022, and popularly referred to as the "decadal survey," has provided high-level prioritization and guidance for NASA's Planetary Science Division. Other considerations, such as budget realities, congressional language in authorization and appropriations bills, administration requirements, and cross-division and cross-directorate requirements (notably in retiring risk or providing needed information for the human program) are also necessary inputs to how NASA develops its planetary science program. In 2016 NASA asked the National Academies to undertake a study assessing NASA's progress at meeting the objectives of the decadal survey. After the study was underway, Congress passed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Transition Authorization Act of 2017 which called for NASA to engage the National Academies in a review of NASA's Mars Exploration Program. NASA and the Academies agreed to incorporate that review into the midterm study. That study has produced this report, which serves as a midterm assessment and provides guidance on achieving the goals in the remaining years covered by the decadal survey as well as preparing for the next decadal survey, currently scheduled to begin in 2020.
