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

Emily Lakdawalla

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Description: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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job (Springer Praxis Books). To get started finding The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job (Springer Praxis Books), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 292

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: 2018

ISBN: 3319681443

Description: 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job (Springer Praxis Books). To get started finding The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job (Springer Praxis Books), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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