The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job by Emily Lakdawalla

The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job

Emily Lakdawalla

292 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction science informative slow-paced
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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...

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